Necromancing this thread...

Sage has a patch to optionally use a serial console log in board_status.sh: http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/6094/

Earlier objections to such an approach seemed to stem from either:

- Desire to use cbmem console instead. A fine idea, but on some platforms (especially those which use AGESA) a lot of information gets spit out to the console before cbmem is available. Re-factoring to make cbmem init happen earlier is unfeasible AFAICT.

- Avoid confusing cbmem console log and other logs. This can be easily solved by using a different filename. I personally think it's best to only upload one log (whichever is most useful) and avoid polluting the web UI with redundant files. But I could live with multiple console logs if others feel strongly.

Seeing as how only a small handful of people currently actually use this utility anyway, I'm inclined to think it's best to make the utility more useful for a major coreboot contributor get some more status reports uploaded.

Thoughts?

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Kyösti Mälkki <kyosti.malkki@gmail.com> wrote:

On 02/20/2014 12:56 AM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:

You do not get raminit debug output printed in ramstage.

Unfortunately, the case of incompatible DIMMs seems to be common one
with recent AGESA ports so information from romstage what DIMMs have
worked is actually relevant.

Just read this data from registers and print it.

Neither of us has probably looked closely what details we are missing from AGESA romstages. I very much doubt it would be just static register configuration on memory controllers that could be dumped afterwards.

AMD has an amount of SMP init going on in romstage along with possibly multiple logical CPUs using CAR etc.