[PATCH 09/17] x86: coreboot: Show the BIOS date

[Bin Meng]

Hi Simon,

On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 12:33 PM Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> The BIOS version may not be present, e.g. on a Chrome OS build. Add the
> BIOS date as well, so we get some sort of indication of coreboot's
> vintage.
>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> ---
>
>  board/coreboot/coreboot/coreboot.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/board/coreboot/coreboot/coreboot.c b/board/coreboot/coreboot/coreboot.c
> index 175d3ce691a..93f897893eb 100644
> --- a/board/coreboot/coreboot/coreboot.c
> +++ b/board/coreboot/coreboot/coreboot.c
> @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ int show_board_info(void)
>         const char *bios_ver = smbios_string(bios, t0->bios_ver);

I would insert the line here and name the variable as bios_date:

       const char *bios_date = smbios_string(bios, t0->bios_release_date);

>         const char *model = smbios_string(system, t1->product_name);
>         const char *manufacturer = smbios_string(system, t1->manufacturer);
> +       const char *date = smbios_string(bios, t0->bios_release_date);
>
>         if (!model || !manufacturer || !bios_ver)
>                 goto fallback;
> @@ -46,6 +47,8 @@ int show_board_info(void)
>         printf("Vendor: %s\n", manufacturer);
>         printf("Model: %s\n", model);
>         printf("BIOS Version: %s\n", bios_ver);
> +       if (date)
> +               printf("BIOS date: %s\n", date);
>
>         return 0;

Regards,
Bin