[coreboot] Ability to remotely debug the grub menu in case of boot failure

[Piotr Kubaj]

You might want to check what PCengines guys did, their APU doesn't have video (only serial), and the keyboard works in SeaBIOS.

On 17-10-05 12:00:01, coreboot-request at coreboot.org wrote:
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>   1. Re: Broadwell-DE NS FSP not support (Hilbert Tu (???_Pegatron))
>   2. Re: Ability to remotely debug the grub menu in case of boot
>      failure (Anshuman Aggarwal)
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>Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 01:40:04 +0000
>From: Hilbert Tu(???_Pegatron)  <Hilbert_Tu at pegatroncorp.com>
>To: Zoran Stojsavljevic <zoran.stojsavljevic at gmail.com>
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>Subject: Re: [coreboot] Broadwell-DE NS FSP not support
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>Hi Zoran/Piotr,
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>Yes, the current available FSP does not support BDX-DE NS. I got same information from local Intel FAE.  So I don?t know the next step to evaluate my CRB.
>
>@Taiidan,
>Thanks for your information, ?6 months for skilled person? ? Maybe I should try BIOS/UEFI first.
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>-Hilbert
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>From: Zoran Stojsavljevic [mailto:zoran.stojsavljevic at gmail.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2017 7:57 PM
>To: Hilbert Tu(???_Pegatron)
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>Subject: Re: [coreboot] Broadwell-DE NS FSP not support
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>Hello Hilbert,
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>There is none FSP for BDW-DE? Are you sure?? And how did you conclude that???
>
>Here is the answer: https://github.com/IntelFsp/FSP
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>Intel? Xeon? Processor D Product Family (formerly Broadwell-DE, Compliant with FSP v1.0 Specification) Broadwell-DE: git clone -b Broadwell-DE https://github.com/IntelFsp/FSP.git
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><https://github.com/IntelFsp/FSP.git>
>git clone -b Broadwell-DE <https://github.com/IntelFsp/FSP.git> https://github.com/IntelFsp/FSP.git
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><https://github.com/IntelFsp/FSP.git>
>Zoran
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>On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 4:39 AM, Hilbert Tu(???_Pegatron) <Hilbert_Tu at pegatroncorp.com<mailto:Hilbert_Tu at pegatroncorp.com>> wrote:
>Hi,
>I have an Intel Broadwell-DE NS CRB and I want to evaluate it with coreboot. But from Intel FSP git, there is no corresponding FSP for Broadwell-DE NS. Does that mean I can?t use coreboot as boot loader if Intel FSP not available for my platform? If not, does anyone know how to do that? Please help. Thanks.
>-Hilbert
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>Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 15:24:50 +0530
>From: Anshuman Aggarwal <anshuman.aggarwal at gmail.com>
>To: ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com>
>Cc: "Taiidan at gmx.com" <Taiidan at gmx.com>, coreboot at coreboot.org
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>@Taiidan, as much as I love all things libre, my budget doesn't come
>close to buying those motherboards :(. I like the idea of using
>another machine to view the grub serial. Maybe using a Raspberry Pi
>etc.
>
>@ron, I assume you mean a livecd like alternative which I can connect
>to and use to debug the issue? The only problem I see with that is
>that I cannot see the issue with the machine as it boots so in the off
>chance that something in the distro is corrupted I won't be able to
>figure it out with interacting with a live boot session.
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>Out of curiosity, is this a limitation to what is possible in the BIOS
>or that nobody has found the need to do this sort of remote control
>using the BIOS yet?
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>On 4 October 2017 at 20:59, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
>> as always, your other other choice is to use linux in flash as a bootstrap,
>> and then have the full spectrum of x-over-network solutions that you get
>> from that. That's my new (old) approach nowadays.
>>
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