Re: [coreboot] setting smbios values from the OS

2014-06-21 Thread ron minnich
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 10:00 PM, Scott Duplichan sc...@notabs.org wrote: Putting the serial number in the same flash chip as the main firmware is a cost reduction measure used with desktop and other low cost boards. I have even seen a board where the MAC address lives there. The only

Re: [coreboot] setting smbios values from the OS

2014-06-21 Thread Patrick Georgi
Am 21.06.2014 08:06, schrieb ron minnich: very interesting. Thing is, this is pretty much the antithesis of build-time serial number creation ... which is the thing that I don't see scaling. Right now we compile any serial number right into .text, and modifying that is not a good idea (plus,

Re: [coreboot] setting smbios values from the OS

2014-06-21 Thread ron minnich
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 11:20 PM, Patrick Georgi patr...@georgi-clan.de wrote: In the end, I pose the question why a serial number must be exported to the OS in the first place - this looks like a potential privacy issue to me, while doing nothing for servicing the part (if it's sent back,

Re: [coreboot] coreboot engineer needed

2014-06-21 Thread Scott Duplichan
A coreboot@coreboot.org subscriber wrote: ]Hi Scott, ] ]It appears they are looking for a full-time position. If they were ]willing to outsource, I would be interested. It might be useful to apply anyway. Others have pointed out that most of the coreboot experts are located in Europe. If a few

[coreboot] Improvement of coreboot code (was: latest baytrail fsp on CRB)

2014-06-21 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Karl-Heinz, Am Freitag, den 20.06.2014, 21:17 +0200 schrieb Karl-Heinz Nirschl: i did some experiments with the baytrail fsp coreboot and first of all i like to say thanks for all the good code! everything looks much better than the last time i tried to do anything with coreboot. could

Re: [coreboot] Improvement of coreboot code (was: latest baytrail fsp on CRB)

2014-06-21 Thread Karl-Heinz Nirschl
Hi Paul, last time was with a yonah / 945gm / ich7 based system. i think that was 3-4 years ago (coreboot v2?) maybe that statement is somewhat subjective and i have just more experience with stuff like that in the meantime. i don't have that code anymore but i think things a just more straight

Re: [coreboot] Improvement of coreboot code (was: latest baytrail fsp on CRB)

2014-06-21 Thread Karl-Heinz Nirschl
But anyway - the real statement of the message meant to be: thanks for all the good code. 2014-06-21 10:00 GMT+02:00 Paul Menzel paulepan...@users.sourceforge.net: Dear Karl-Heinz, Am Freitag, den 20.06.2014, 21:17 +0200 schrieb Karl-Heinz Nirschl: i did some experiments with the

Re: [coreboot] Improvement of coreboot code (was: latest baytrail fsp on CRB)

2014-06-21 Thread ron minnich
On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 5:17 AM, Karl-Heinz Nirschl kh.nirs...@gmail.com wrote: But anyway - the real statement of the message meant to be: thanks for all the good code. That's very kind of you. I think you are right about the code, it has improved a lot in the last couple years. ron --

Re: [coreboot] Intel FSP on Bayley Bay CRB: No output

2014-06-21 Thread Giri
Regarding below two items 1) The microcode that is being included is not a part of coreboot, so it needs to be disabled for the default build so that abuild doesn't fail. Intel wants to release the microcode as part of the FSP package and not include it in the coreboot repo so that the

Re: [coreboot] setting smbios values from the OS

2014-06-21 Thread Giri
I believe the request is about filling SMBIOS Table Type 1 – System Information. Fields like Manufacturer, Product Name, Version, Serial Number, UUID, SKU Number, Family…. Some fields are unique per platform / system like Serial Number, UUID. -Giri From: coreboot