[4.8.0.4] APU2 Release Date: Thu Jan 1 1970

[Veldkornet]

After upgrading from 4.8.0.3 to 4.8.0.4, the BIOS release date does not show the correct date

[pietrushnic]

@Veldkornet thanks for reporting that. We will add this to regression testing and make sure it will never happen again.

@krystian-hebel @miczyg1 FYI

[pietrushnic]

@Veldkornet what tool you use to display data?

[Veldkornet]

It’s just the pfSense gui, which issues the following command:
/bin/kenv -q smbios.bios.reldate
Strangely, if I do this I get the following:

20183108

So it looks like it is set... but I’m not sure if maybe the format changed? Unfortunately I don’t have another system to check.

I can say that pfSense then puts it together as follows:

<?=gettext("Release Date: ");?><strong><?= date("D M j Y ",strtotime($biosdate[0]));?></strong><br/>

See ->
https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/blob/master/src/usr/local/www/widgets/widgets/system_information.widget.php

[krystian-hebel]

@Veldkornet are you sure that it showed correct date in 4.8.0.3? We did change the format, but it was between 4.8.0.2 and 4.8.0.3. Now it should be consistent with mainline coreboot for other platforms.

[miczyg1]

@Veldkornet dmidecode from Debian:

dmidecode -t bios
# dmidecode 3.0
Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
SMBIOS 2.7 present.

Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes
BIOS Information
        Vendor: coreboot
        Version: v4.8.0.4
        Release Date: 20183108
        ROM Size: 8192 kB
        Characteristics:
                PCI is supported
                PC Card (PCMCIA) is supported
                BIOS is upgradeable
                Selectable boot is supported
                ACPI is supported
                Targeted content distribution is supported
        BIOS Revision: 4.0
        Firmware Revision: 0.0

Release date in sign of life is correct too. The GUI must parse the release date differently and seem to get some error.

[pietrushnic]

@Veldkornet IMO this is a bug. SMBIOS tables should comply to the particular format. We implemented that incorrectly because of assumtion that sign of life will have the same date format as what we have in Release Date in SMBIOS. Many thanks for pointing it out.

[miczyg1]

This PR should have fixed the issue: pcengines/coreboot#197

[pietrushnic]

@miczyg1 please point to release when binaries will be publicly available.

[miczyg1]

@Veldkornet v4.8.0.5 is released and the bug is fixed. Please have a try: https://pcengines.github.io/#mr-15
We will fix it for legacy release too this month.

[Veldkornet]

Looks good

/bin/kenv -q smbios.bios.reldate
10/04/2018

[pietrushnic]

@Veldkornet thank you for verification.