coreboot system analyzer

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

This is a ready-made script which gathers all information about a system 
we could want to evaluate whether porting is possible and/or easy.

The idea behind it is to get loads of people to run the script and help 
us analyze coverage of flashrom and superiotool, together with board 
distribution among willing testers.
In the future, this could include the ICH GPIO dumper, the K8 resource 
dumper, the MCP55 configuration dumper and a few other utilities.

Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger

Quoting Carl-Daniel Hailfinger :
> This is a ready-made script which gathers all information about a
> system we could want to evaluate whether porting is possible and/or
> easy.
>
> The idea behind it is to get loads of people to run the script and help
> us analyze coverage of flashrom and superiotool, together with board
> distribution among willing testers.
> In the future, this could include the ICH GPIO dumper, the K8 resource
> dumper, the MCP55 configuration dumper and a few other utilities.
>
> Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger

Great work!!
I really like the Idea:)

Thanks - Joe

[Paul Menzel]

Hi,

Am Donnerstag, den 28.02.2008, 15:21 +0100 schrieb Carl-Daniel
Hailfinger:
> This is a ready-made script which gathers all information about a system 
> we could want to evaluate whether porting is possible and/or easy.
>
> The idea behind it is to get loads of people to run the script and help 
> us analyze coverage of flashrom and superiotool, together with board 
> distribution among willing testers.
> In the future, this could include the ICH GPIO dumper, the K8 resource 
> dumper, the MCP55 configuration dumper and a few other utilities.
>
> Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger

Great idea.
> acpidump >acpidump.txt

The problem is, that it is not certain, that acpidump is installed on
the system (It is not on mine). So maybe we should test for the
existence. I do not know of a better way to check, whether a program is
in the path.

if [ -f /usr/bin/acpidump ]
  then
    acpidump > acpidump.txt
  else
    echo "Please install acpidump of the pmtools package."
    echo "Debian-based: sudo aptitude install acpidump ."
fi

or
  else
    wget http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/utils/pmtools-200711...
    tar xjvf pmtools-20071116.tar.bz2
    cd pmtools-20071116/acpidump/
    make
    ./acpidump > acpidump.txt
fi

An other thing is, whether the script should use sudo and compile the
programs with the right of the normal user.

Regards,

Paul

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 03.03.2008 16:19, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Donnerstag, den 28.02.2008, 15:21 +0100 schrieb Carl-Daniel
> Hailfinger:
> > This is a ready-made script which gathers all information about a system 
> > we could want to evaluate whether porting is possible and/or easy.
> >
> > The idea behind it is to get loads of people to run the script and help 
> > us analyze coverage of flashrom and superiotool, together with board 
> > distribution among willing testers.
> > In the future, this could include the ICH GPIO dumper, the K8 resource 
> > dumper, the MCP55 configuration dumper and a few other utilities.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
>
> Great idea.

Thanks.
> > acpidump >acpidump.txt
>
> The problem is, that it is not certain, that acpidump is installed on
> the system (It is not on mine). So maybe we should test for the
> existence. I do not know of a better way to check, whether a program is
> in the path.
> [...]

I adapted your code somewhat, but it is not finished. Thanks for the code.
> An other thing is, whether the script should use sudo and compile the
> programs with the right of the normal user.

Indeed. I'd even say we could split the script in two scripts, one 
privileged and one unprivileged.

New version attached.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

[Peter Stuge]

On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 06:23:21PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> test -z "$ACPIDUMP" && for a in /usr/bin /bin /usr/local/bin /usr/sbin /sbin /usr/local/sbin; do
>    test -f $a/acpidump && IASL="$a/acpidump"
> done
> test -z "$ACPIDUMP" && { echo acpidump not found.; exit 1; }

ACPIDUMP vs IASL ?
> DMIDECODE=`which dmidecode 2>/dev/null`
> test -z "$DMIDECODE" && for a in /usr/bin /bin /usr/local/bin /usr/sbin /sbin /usr/local/sbin; do
>    test -f $a/dmidecode && IASL="$a/dmidecode"
> done
> test -z "$DMIDECODE" && { echo dmidecode not found.; exit 1; }

DMIDECODE vs IASL ?
> [e-mail]

Does this exist? Who reads it?

//Peter