how embarassing

[ron minnich]

my wife just called me and said "how do I know what version of LB I
have on this machine? I just run dtidump on the other nodes".

well, I had no answer. At least not a good one. how embarassing! I
guess dti just got more important to me.

ron

[Joe]

Yup, gota keep the wife happy:-)

Thanks,
Joseph Smith
Set-Top-Linux
www.settoplinux.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]]
> On Behalf Of ron minnich
> Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 3:22 PM
> To: Coreboot
> Subject: [coreboot] how embarassing
>
> my wife just called me and said "how do I know what version of LB I
> have on this machine? I just run dtidump on the other nodes".
>
> well, I had no answer. At least not a good one. how embarassing! I
> guess dti just got more important to me.
>
> ron

[Ward Vandewege]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:21:48PM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> my wife just called me and said "how do I know what version of LB I
> have on this machine? I just run dtidump on the other nodes".

We actually talked about this in Denver :) Seems like it should go in the
coreboot table somewhere perhaps.
> well, I had no answer. At least not a good one. how embarassing! I
> guess dti just got more important to me.

I'd like lshw to be able to read that out as well.

Thanks,
Ward.

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 18.04.2008 21:21, ron minnich wrote:
> my wife just called me and said "how do I know what version of LB I
> have on this machine? I just run dtidump on the other nodes".
>
> well, I had no answer. At least not a good one. how embarassing! I
> guess dti just got more important to me.

flashrom -r dump.rom
strings dump.rom|egrep -i "linuxbios-[12]|coreboot-[12]"

That should work.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

[ron minnich]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
 wrote:
> flashrom -r dump.rom
>  strings dump.rom|egrep -i "linuxbios-[12]|coreboot-[12]"

works fine. But the problem is "that's not how everything else works". Sigh.

ron

[Stefan Reinauer]

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> On 18.04.2008 21:21, ron minnich wrote:
> > my wife just called me and said "how do I know what version of LB I
> > have on this machine? I just run dtidump on the other nodes".
> >
> > well, I had no answer. At least not a good one. how embarassing! I
> > guess dti just got more important to me.
>
> flashrom -r dump.rom
> strings dump.rom|egrep -i "linuxbios-[12]|coreboot-[12]"
>
> That should work.

unless you compile with a MAXIMUM_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL less than BIOS_NOTICE.

But nvramtool will always do the trick. It's the tool in our tree that
reads the coreboot table. It's been around for ages under the name of lxbios

So what's this dtidump?

Stefan

[Peter Stuge]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:21:48PM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> my wife just called me and said "how do I know what version of LB I
> have on this machine? I just run dtidump on the other nodes".
>
> well, I had no answer. At least not a good one.

dmesg|head

//Peter

[ron minnich]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Peter Stuge  wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:21:48PM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> > my wife just called me and said "how do I know what version of LB I
> > have on this machine? I just run dtidump on the other nodes".
> >
> > well, I had no answer. At least not a good one.
>
> dmesg|head

eh? Where does the LB version show up in dmesg? I've never seen it there.

ron

[yhlu]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 6:03 PM, ron minnich  wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Peter Stuge  wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:21:48PM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> > > my wife just called me and said "how do I know what version of LB I
> > > have on this machine? I just run dtidump on the other nodes".
> > >
> > > well, I had no answer. At least not a good one.
> >
> > dmesg|head
>
> eh? Where does the LB version show up in dmesg? I've never seen it there.

linux tables is still in memory together with mptable.

lxbios could dump that table with version  etc.

YH

YH

[Peter Stuge]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 06:03:52PM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> > > my wife just called me and said "how do I know what version of LB I
> > > have on this machine? I just run dtidump on the other nodes".
> > >
> > > well, I had no answer. At least not a good one.
> >
> > dmesg|head
>
> eh? Where does the LB version show up in dmesg? I've never seen it
> there.

http://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot/ticket/76

Admittedly, it is not the answer today, but I believe it should be
the answer in the future.

But what to do for other systems than Linux?

//Peter

[Stefan Reinauer]

Peter Stuge wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 06:03:52PM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> > > > my wife just called me and said "how do I know what version of LB I
> > > > have on this machine? I just run dtidump on the other nodes".
> > > >
> > > > well, I had no answer. At least not a good one.
> > >
> > > dmesg|head
> >
> > eh? Where does the LB version show up in dmesg? I've never seen it
> > there.
>
> http://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot/ticket/76
>
> Admittedly, it is not the answer today, but I believe it should be
> the answer in the future.
>
> But what to do for other systems than Linux?

It should be relatively easy to port nvramtool (formerly known as lxbios)

Stefan