Firmware Test Suite 14.01.00 released
Alex Hung
alex.hung at canonical.com
Wed Jan 15 09:45:36 UTC 2014
Hi all:
fwts 14.01.00 is release.
The source tarball is available at
http://fwts.ubuntu.com/release/fwts-V14.01.00.tar.gz
For Ubuntu users, the debs are available in the PPA
https://launchpad.net/~firmware-testing-team/+archive/ppa-fwts-stable
The release notes:
= New Features =
* acpi: acpidump: add SPCR table (LP: #1260351)
* acpi: acpidump: add DBGP table (LP: #1260353)
* acpi: acpidump: add DBG2 table (LP: #1260356)
* acpi: acpidump: dump out table descriptions (LP: #1261483)
* acpi: acpidump: Add MCHI table (LP: #1261484)
* lib: klog: don't clear kernel log on s3 and s4 tests (LP: #1262208)
* dmi: dmicheck: add more checks for invalid DMI fields (LP: #1262236)
* data: klog: sync kernel error messages with 3.13 kernel (LP: #1266786)
* acpi: crsdump, prsdump: add support for _PRS dumping (LP: #1265827)
* uefi: uefidump: add the Media Protocol subtype-5 support on media
device path type for uefidump (LP: #1260147)
* uefi: uefidump: add the PIWG Firmware File subtype-6 support on
media device path type for uefidump (LP: #1260147)
* uefi: uefidump: add the PIWG Firmware Volume subtype-7 support on
media device path type for uefidump (LP: #1260147)
* uefi: uefidump: extend the Messaging Device Path type Vendor
subtype-10 (LP: #1262095)
* lib: fwts_uefi header add attribute packed for struct typedef
= Fixed Bugs =
* dmi: change max value of "Upgrade" field" from 0x2a to 0x2c (LP: #1263634)
* cpu: microcode: test should skip if no microcode found (LP: #1259900)
* Enable ACPI table dumping for non-x86 systems (LP: #1260470)
* Allow RSDP to be provided manually or scan for it in klog (LP: #1260400)
* Dump ACPI table addresses with correct address length (LP: #1260482)
* ACPICA: update to version 20131218 (LP: #1262348)
* fwts: remove launchpad tagging from fwts
* acpi: crsdump: fix large resource length calculation (LP: #1255793)
* fwts: attempt to make fwts less Ubuntu specific, (LP: #1246653)
* fwts: fix common realloc() memory leak anti-pattern (LP: #1267193)
* acpi: s3: remove redundant variable
* bios: pciirq: fix printf format and tidy some variable scopes
* acpi: powerbutton: ensure we don't get scanf buffer overflow
* cpu: cpufreq: use correct printf format specifiers
== Deprecated features ==
* doc: remove tag options --lp-tags and --lp-tags-log
* data: klog.json: remove redundant tags from database
= Known Issues =
* can only build with automake 1.13 or older.
* fail to build on developing trusty environment
= Detail Changelog =
To check /usr/share/doc/fwts/changelog.Debian.gz or
fwts_14.01.00-0ubuntu1.debian.tar.gz from
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fwts
Cheers,
Alex Hung
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