Docs/project_ideas: Add a "parse SerialICE traces" project idea
Change-Id: I696811ff93948358f03ff617d294ecc40bd4c746 Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com> Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/31820 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org> Reviewed-by: Angel Pons <th3fanbus@gmail.com>
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useful for firmware related work: Automatically parse formats (eg. by
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useful for firmware related work: Automatically parse formats (eg. by
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integrating UEFITool, cbfstool, decompressors), automatically identify
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integrating UEFITool, cbfstool, decompressors), automatically identify
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16/32/64bit code on x86/amd64, etc.
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16/32/64bit code on x86/amd64, etc.
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## Learn hardware behavior from I/O and memory access logs
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[SerialICE](https://www.serialice.com) is a tool to trace the behavior of
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executable code like firmware images. One result of that is a long log file
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containing the accesses to hardware resources.
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It would be useful to have a tool that assists a developer-analyst in deriving
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knowledge about hardware from such logs. This likely can't be entirely
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automatic, but a tool that finds patterns and can propagate them across the
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log (incrementially raising the log from plain I/O accesses to a high-level
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description of driver behavior) would be of great use.
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This is a research-heavy project.
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### Requirements
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* Driver knowledge: Somebody working on this should be familiar with
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how hardware works (eg. MMIO based register access, index/data port
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accesses) and how to read data sheets.
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* Machine Learning: ML techniques may be useful to find structure in traces.
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### Mentors
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* Ron Minnich <rminnich@google.com>
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