fwts V0.25.06-rc1 release review

[Keng-Yu Lin]

Dear all:

  V0.25.06-rc1 tag is pushed to both fwts and fwts-test git repository.

  failure.log is attached. We are having a few old test cases not in
sync with the latest fwts code.

  fwts patches (V0.25.05..V0.25.06-rc1):
    debian: Add hardening options
    lib: fwts_klog: optimize regex scanning
    acpi: method: Change _BBN's test_type from METHOD_MOBILE to METHOD_OPTIONAL
    bios: mtrr: fix stupid typos
    cpu: cpufreq: add need to run as root
    cpu: cpufreq: make HzToHuman() more efficient
    cpu: cpufreq: tidy up memset usage
    cpu: cpufreq: various whitespace clean ups
    cpu: cpufreq: rename some global variables to make them more readable
    cpu: cpufreq: tidy up table output
    cpu: cpufreq: make progress estimate more accurate
    cpu: cpufreq: cpufreq and cpuidle dirs confusing cpuN parsing
    data: klog.json: make the _OSC failure advice more general and hand-wavy
    acpi: acpidump: make arrays static
    acpi: acpidump: Add stub for MPST
    acpi: acpidump + acpi headers: Add basic dump of RASF
    acpi: acpidump + acpi headers: Add simple support for FPDT
    Update README_ACPICA.txt to add in new acpica sources
    Update copy-acpica.sh to copy over new sources
    acpica: use latest ACPICA source
    acpica: incorporate new ACPICA sources to enable fwts to build
    lib: acpica: fix semaphore counting by waiting for threads to complete
    lib: fwts_acpi_tables: Force fixup on XSDT and RSDT when loading
from .dat files
    lib: acpi_acpi_tables: Add tables based on ACPI name and not file name.
    acpi: method: remove race delay kludge
    Add mutex around semaphore counting (LP:#1017388)
    dmi: dmi_decode: make advice more relevant to data handled by the kernel
    Update FADT preferred PM profile to add Tablet
    acpi: acpidump: Add support for bit 20 and 21 of FADT flags
    acpi: acpidump: add extra ACPI 5.0 fields to FACP

  fwts-test patches (V0.25.05..V0.25.06-rc1):
    None

  cheers,
-kengyu
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