On 21.03.2018 07:00, Paul Menzel wrote:
Please make sure, that in the coreboot repository `git describe -- dirty` doesn’t return a string with *dirty* in it. Often it is caused by changes in the directory `3rdparty`, which you can fix by running `make gitconfig` and `git sup`.
This is futile, atm. With the current board-status script, it's too easy to upload status with a wrong version string. So we have to expect it to be wrong anyway.
Note, SeaBIOS master is currently broken, meaning that, there are huge delays if a TPM chip is not found [2]. So, please stay with 1.11.0 or 1.11.1 until the patches [3] are added to SeaBIOS’ master branch.
Is SeaBIOS a requirement for board status now? And what difference would the delay in the payload make to the board status?
PS: I am aware, that the board status script needs to be made more user friendly, but as long as nobody has time to improve it, it’s what we have.
User-friendliness is not the only problem. My biggest concern is that the version information (and maybe more) are taken from the coreboot tree and not the running coreboot.
Nico