> Unrelated -- who can I talk to about fixing the state of launching > something other than u-boot from the Alternative Bootloader Menu? > Tianocore has only ever worked on a handful of devices, and the lack > of console output on release firmware makes it difficult to debug.
I can try answering that -- let's fork this off into a new thread. Not exactly sure what your question is, though? Is there some technical problem with the altfw code that doesn't allow you to launch other bootloaders? It should allow you to install and launch anything that can run as a coreboot payload, and on more recent Chromebooks you should be able to install those side-by-side with U-Boot and select on each boot from the menu. If you're asking whether Google will start pre-installing more alternative bootloaders on Chromebooks, unfortunately I don't think there are any plans to do that. We currently see the alternative bootloader feature as an option to allow users to run their own code on Chromebooks, and we really appreciate the work of people like you in developing and maintaining custom builds for that -- but we don't have the bandwidth to maintain alternative bootloaders ourselves for each board. There's just not enough business incentive for Google to invest that effort, basically. Maybe +Dossym can comment on what, if anything, would need to happen for us to reconsider that position, but I don't think there's a high chance (there are just not enough Chromebook users that would care about these compared to the necessary effort). For console output, of course the alternative bootloader should do its own console initialization and after that it shouldn't matter whether coreboot set up a console anymore. If you want to see things that got caught in depthcharge's exception handler before your console initialization succeeded, one hacky workaround that should work is to trigger the error, then soft-reset the machine (e.g. via the Alt+VolUp+R key combination), then boot into normal Chrome OS developer mode and read the last boot's persistent CBMEM console output from /sys/firmware/log. (Of course you can also just recompile coreboot and depthcharge with console output enabled if you prefer.)
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