[coreboot] [RFC] board_status: Add serial log to `serial_console.txt`

[David Hendricks]

On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 4:50 AM, Paul Menzel <
paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> Dear coreboot folks,
>
>
> currently no coreboot messages are stored for boards not supporting
> CBMEM console (or where this option is disabled (currently by default))
> or no coreboot *romstage* messages are stored for boards, where the data
> cannot be preserved (passed to ramstage).
>
> Using the serial (or USB) console all these messages can be captured
> with no problem, so I propose to just add these captured messages into
> the file `serial_console.txt`. Of course this file probably contains
> also the payload and (Linux) kernel log, but I think that is fine.
>
> SeaBIOS’ `readserial.py` should be used for capturing the messages as it
> adds time stamps.
>
> Scripting this is going to be hard, as the log is captured on a
> different system. So for now I propose to add it manually.
>

I don't think the script itself should be responsible for collecting serial
output. Instead, how about adding an argument to override the default
behavior of running "cbmem -c" on the target so that the user can pass in a
filename? The user will simply capture the serial output using whatever
tool they like, dump the output to a text file, and run the script with an
argument to use the file instead of calling "cbmem -c". Here is a
proof-of-concept: http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/5191 .

But in general I think I agree with Vladimir. CBMEM console should be
supported and if not then that should be fixed.

-- 
David Hendricks (dhendrix)
Systems Software Engineer, Google Inc.
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