[coreboot] Panic room

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 22.02.2010 18:49, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> On 2/22/10 5:59 PM, Peter Stuge wrote:
>   
>> ron minnich wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>>> I still try to fancy what that panic room is. Is it the gdb
>>>> handler for the case that gdb is enabled?
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>> in my ideal world, the panic room is SerialICE.
>>>     
>>>       
>> That's a nice idea.
>>
>> I think interesting suggestions for panic room go from debugging
>> (SerialICE, gdb) to monitor (console menu for file transfer and
>> flashing) and beyond.
>>
>> For board porters it's definately most useful to get debugging. For
>> production use maybe monitor mode is more useful. Or even something
>> like a RAM scrubber as a simple failsafe?
>>
>> I guess we don't want to limit ourselves to just one choice here.
>>   
>>     
> Well, one choice is better than none and the world was not invented in a
> day ...
>   

If SerialICE is relocatable to have all code in CAR and if it can do
batched commands (<start_transaction>, <bunch_of_memory_writes>,
<end_transaction_and_execute_now>), it is reasonably easy to have
flashrom rewrite the ROM over the SerialICE interface. IMHO that's a
pretty good way to recover from a non-booting machine because it only
needs a serial line (or whatever you're using to communicate with
SerialICE).

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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