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Re: Test your BIOS and share your results on GitHub

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Post by onli »

That's a nice idea. Vaguely remember seeing something like this before, but since I don't know where that's not a problem. Might've been an Ubuntu initiative from a few years ago and was not necessarily only the firmware.

The introduction is missing that coreboot (https://www.coreboot.org/) exists.

Suggestion: Make it easier to contribute. I have no idea how to get fwts to give me the files shown for the example. Why not add a script that calls fwts the right way and formats the output as needed, and maybe uploads the result to somewhere?

Re: Test your BIOS and share your results on GitHub

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Post by josteink »

Looks like a good initiative.

Would probably get more feedback if there was some simple scripts included which conducted and prepared a folder with all the logs for you.

Right now it looks like quite a bit of manual work, which could easily be cut down by providing a simple shell script. It doesn't even have to get you all the way (clone repo, get correct vendor+board, etc), but at least provide you with all the logfiles, consistently named. The readme could then guide you to what blanks you need to fill in yourself in the end.

Hopefully the currently half-baked state of this otherwise good initiative doesn't cause too many people who could have contributed to bail out.

Re: Test your BIOS and share your results on GitHub

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Post by Julio-Guerra »

onli wrote: post #2

That's a nice idea. Vaguely remember seeing something like this before, but since I don't know where that's not a problem. Might've been an Ubuntu initiative from a few years ago and was not necessarily only the firmware. The introduction is missing that coreboot ( https://www.coreboot.org/ ) exists. Suggestion: Make it easier to contribute. I have no idea how to get fwts to give me the files shown for the example. W…

I ran FWTS from its live image which does everything automatically, you don't have to do anything but wait for the results.

I'll had some explanations.

Re: Test your BIOS and share your results on GitHub

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Post by rogeryu »

So you want us to share our results? Then make it easy. Make a step by step guide. Include commands or scripts that we can execute. Show us what to upload where.

Take a common case scenario like with Ubuntu 14.04. Make screenshots of every step or copy every command you use in the terminal. Then you might get response.

Re: Test your BIOS and share your results on GitHub

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Post by kawsper »

onli wrote: post #2

That's a nice idea. Vaguely remember seeing something like this before, but since I don't know where that's not a problem. Might've been an Ubuntu initiative from a few years ago and was not necessarily only the firmware. The introduction is missing that coreboot ( https://www.coreboot.org/ ) exists. Suggestion: Make it easier to contribute. I have no idea how to get fwts to give me the files shown for the example. W…

Libreboot (https://libreboot.org/) is also interesting. The difference between them is that libreboot is a distribution of coreboot without any proprietary binary blobs, and an easier install path.

Re: Test your BIOS and share your results on GitHub

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Post by tombrossman »

Julio-Guerra wrote: post #5
onli wrote: post #2

That's a nice idea. Vaguely remember seeing something like this before, but since I don't know where that's not a problem. Might've been an Ubuntu initiative from a few years ago and was not necessarily only the firmware. The introduction is missing that coreboot ( https://www.coreboot.org/ ) exists. Suggestion: Make it easier to contribute. I have no idea how to get fwts to give me the files shown for the example. W…

I ran FWTS from its live image which does everything automatically, you don't have to do anything but wait for the results. I'll had some explanations.

Can I make a suggestion? It looks like this is aimed at open-source users and it might be a better fit over on GitLab (https://gitlab.com/).

It's a great idea to create this repository of information, but putting it in GitHib's proprietary silo is a turnoff to some potential contributors. It isn't wrong to use GitHub, it's just better to make GitLab the default choice for FOSS (and especially crowd-sourced!) projects.

Either way good luck with it, I like the idea and as I'm already running Ubuntu I may try the PPA and see if I can generate some useful data to contribute.

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