On 09/08/17 01:40, Rohret, David M wrote:
Greetings,
I have a project to monitor the voltage from a mainboards power conditioner and trigger a warning when it exceeds normal parameters by more than 7%. Commercial bios dev teams are reluctant to divulge any information, so I would like to install my own instance to do the job. I have 1 quick and 1 not so quick questions:
- I'm not confined to a specific motherboard, so I would like to use one that is compatible with the latest build of OpenBios; suggestions?
- If anyone has dealt with system health, any suggestions where to start?
I appreciate any help!
Hi Dave,
Thanks for the email, and sorry the delay in my reply as it has been a busy week here!
There are really 2 aspects to what you are trying to do: the first is the low-level initialisation of the hardware components and the second is the BIOS. For the first part of this I suspect you will end up using coreboot which has support for most chipsets, and then once that is done you can launch a payload (typically an ELF executable) which is the user-facing part of the BIOS.
The choice of BIOS really comes down to which platform and what functionality you are looking for: OpenBIOS is included with QEMU and is used to boot SPARC/Mac PPC images so those parts get tested and scrutinised a lot. x86 is a lot less well tested, and to be honest most people using x86 will not want to use a Forth-based BIOS like OpenBIOS but instead one of the newer open-source UEFI BIOSs to make the most of newer hardware.
I hope that helps answer some of your questions, if you have any further queries then I'll try my best to answer them :)
ATB,
Mark.