[coreboot] new problem with KGPE-d16

[Timothy Pearson]

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On 01/09/2017 05:12 PM, ron minnich wrote:
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> On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 3:00 PM Timothy Pearson
> <tpearson at raptorengineering.com <mailto:tpearson at raptorengineering.com>>
> wrote:
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>     On 01/09/2017 04:55 PM, ron minnich wrote:
>     > yes I do. I'm working from ToT. Bisecting now
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>     This brings up an interesting question.  How should we be testing for
>     payload-dependent failures on systems like the REACTS?  The possibility
>     of the payload causing breakage within coreboot itself was not even
>     considered before now.
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> I think what we need is a good regression test payload kernel. This is
> what I"ve done on ports to powerpc and riscv. You have a simple
> priveleged mode bundle of code that exercises known failure cases. 
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> I've found plan 9  (now harvey) to be an easy code base for this, but a
> smaller, lighter kernel would probably be even better. 

Agreed.  I'll add this to our master list of desired features in REACTS.

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Timothy Pearson
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