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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