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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 21:46:08 JST 翠星石
@amonakov >The flash chip I'm talking about is less that $1 in a $10000 server
But if they put in another $1 flash chip, they would make $9499 rather than $9500, so they'd never do that.
>at least announce the currently executing UEFI module/driver would cost ~nothing.
I reckon there's a chance that they didn't even write the UEFI implementation and just rented it off someone else, who gave them a proprietary executable without source and if so, they couldn't really add logging even if they cared to.-
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Alexander Monakov (amonakov@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 21:46:14 JST Alexander Monakov
@wolf480pl The flash chip I'm talking about is less that $1 in a $10000 server. And the logs that would at least announce the currently executing UEFI module/driver would cost ~nothing.
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Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 21:46:15 JST Wolf480pl
@amonakov costs
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Alexander Monakov (amonakov@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 21:46:16 JST Alexander Monakov
At work, I'm helping recover a server that fails to boot, and as I learn more about common UEFI implementations, I keep wondering "what were they thinking??"
- Modifiable state (NVRAM) on the same flash chip as essential boot software;
- No logs whatsoever.
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