[coreboot] Finding whether the BIOS is coreboot or not

[Marc Jones]

My $.02 is to check dmidecode.
Marc


On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 10:11 AM ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:

> Could you also look for LBIO in the e and f segments?
>
> On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 12:34 AM Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi at google.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 2015-07-18 9:03 GMT+02:00 Kevin Wilson <wkevils at gmail.com>:
>> > Is there a way, from a device running Linux,  to which I have access
>> > to the command line, to know
>> > whether the BIOS is coreboot or not ? by some utility, or by some sysfs
>> entry ?
>> We usually have coreboot related vendor names for ACPI tables (eg.
>> dsdt table id 'COREBOOT'). Those are visible early on in dmesg, I
>> think.
>> Also our cbmem utility (coreboot source tree, util/cbmem) can print a
>> coreboot specific table's content.
>>
>> Neither of these are guaranteed to be around (it would be possible to
>> cloak things thoroughly), but it's likely that they are on coreboot,
>> and pretty much non-existent otherwise.
>>
>>
>> Patrick
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