Test your BIOS and share your results on GitHub (opens in new tab)

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.

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.

Seems like a good idea, but the implementation is poor.

Please just write a tool that does the set of tests, displays results and optionally submits them.

Then distributions could package it, and people could run it.

The way it needs to be done right now implies too much effort and few people are going to bother.

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?

Here is an easier to use bootable live image: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FirmwareTestSuite/FirmwareTestSuiteL...

There is also https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/13/103

I updated the README to include your comments. Thanks for the feedback.

such an interesting thread, thanks for bringing this up!

At Packet, we've been working to support CoreOS and their Distributed Trusted Computing (https://tectonic.com/trusted-computing/) for our on-demand bare metal product. This relies on UEFI vs traditional BIOS. Reading up on this I've certainly learned a ton! A good background article I read was https://www.happyassassin.net/2014/01/25/uefi-boot-how-does-...