Validation effort for Dasharo (coreboot+SeaBIOS) for PC Engines v24.08.00.01

[pietrushnic]

In this issue, I will report the progress of validation. The plan is as follows:

• Rebase patches using dasharo-pq to produce v24.08.00.0: Rel 24.08.00.01 dasharo-pq#9
• Test v24.08.00.01 and publish results from the old validation framework
  • apu2
  • apu3
  • apu4
  • apu6

Below is migrated to v25.06.00.01 milestone: #1361

• Port tests to OSFV: SeaBIOS support open-source-firmware-validation#574
• Test v25.06.00.01 and publish results from OSFV #1360
  • apu2
  • apu3
  • apu4
  • apu6

[miczyg1]

During the testing I saw that apu3 does not have mSATA but it could have one.

The tests on SATA storage run on certain assumption on OS installed:

${hard_disk_with_Linux}           ${True}
${hard_disk_with_pfSense}         ${True}

But it does not specify which disk has which OS. We can definitely improve that and the test should boto given hard disks that are expected to have the required OS.

Lots of apu6 failures are infrastructure-related. The DEB1.x and XEN1.x tests fail due to NFS being unresponsive. Not sure what I can do with that...

[pietrushnic]

We have to migrate out of that infrastructure. The best approach right now is to have one platform accessing NFS. It improves the likelihood that this old NFS VM will not fail.

[miczyg1]

Results are published. Closing the issue.