Firmwate Test Suite 15.07.00 is released

[Alex Hung]

Hi all:

  FWTS 15.07.00 is released. It is available from:

  Tar: http://fwts.ubuntu.com/release/fwts-V15.07.00.tar.gz
  PPA: https://launchpad.net/~firmware-testing-team/+archive/ubuntu/ppa-fwts-stable

  The release notes are available at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FirmwareTestSuite/ReleaseNotes/15.07.00


The following significant changes should be noted:

  * --uefi and --acpi options renamed to --uefitests and --acpitests
  * ACPI table tests in the acpitables test have been moved into
specific ACPI tests.

= New Features =

  * acpi: acpidump: update TCPA table and acpidump accordingly
  * acpi: add ACPI TCPA test
  * acpi: add XENV table test
  * lib: fwts_framework: Append "tests" to --uefi and --acpi
  * live-image/fwts-frontend-text: update to --uefitests and --acpitests
  * lib: acpi, acpidump: rename slit tables types
  * lib: acpi: add in new GICC table fwts_acpi_table_gicc_affinity
  * acpi: add SRAT table sanity checking (LP: #1464658)
  * acpi: add BERT table sanity checking (LP: #1464712)
  * lib: acpi: Add in GAS address types
  * acpi: add ECDT table sanity checking (LP: #1464716)
  * lib: acpi: Add support for the SPMI table
  * acpi: add ACPI SPMI table sanity checking (LP: #1465256)
  * acpi: add ACPI SLIT table sanity checking (LP: #1465276)
  * lib: acpi: Add support for the HEST family of ACPI tables
  * acpi: add ACPI HEST table sanity checking (LP: #1465379)
  * acpi: Add BOOT table test (LP: #1465435)
  * acpi: Add DBGP table test (LP: #1465441)
  * acpi: Add DBG2 table test (LP: #1465710)
  * acpi: re-orgainise HPET tests
  * acpi: move MADT test from acpitables into new MADT test
  * acpi: move GTDT test from acpitables into new GTDT test
  * acpi: move XSDT test from acpitables into new XSDT test
  * acpi: move RSDP test from acpitables into new RSDP test
  * acpi: move RSDT test from acpitables into new RSDT test
  * acpi: acpitables: remove no-op MCFG test
  * acpi: move SBST test from acpitables into new SBST test
  * acpi: move FADT test from acpitables into existing FADT test
  * acpi: acpitables: remove redundant acpi table checking
  * acpi: allow various ACPI table tests to run without root access
  * lib: fwts_acpi_tables: fully pad out fixed up ACPI OEM IDs
  * acpi: spcr: add missing white space in error messages
  * acpi: add ACPI ERST test (LP: #1467835)
  * acpi: correct ACPI BGRT table type
  * acpi: add ACPI BGRT test (LP: #1467863)
  * acpi: add ACPI CPEP test (LP: #1467870)
  * acpi: add ACPI FACS test (LP: #1467966)
  * acpi: acpidump: add in missing exponent field to SLIC
  * acpi: add CSRT ACPI Table test (LP: #1470116)
  * acpi: add LPIT ACPI test (LP: #1470184)
  * acpi: add WAET ACPI table test (LP: #1470495)
  * acpi: add SLIC table test (LP: #1470518)
  * acpi: add MSDM table test (LP: #1470538)
  * acpi: add UEFI ACPI data table test (LP: #1471698)
  * bios: os2gap: remove ancient legacy test (LP: #1470573)

= Fixed Bugs =
  * acpi: acpidump: update SMM Communication fields on UEFI table
  * lib: make acpidump parser more robust (LP: #1471202)
  * fwts: cpufreq: fix theoretical division by zero (LP: #1466905)
  * acpi: method: remove extraneous "_" in error message
  * lib: fwts_klog: fix vector size and handle errors from pcre_exec
(LP: #1461520)
  * acpi: lib: fwts_acpi_tables: force fixup when loading tables from
/sys/firmware
  * lib: acpica: compiler: link in missing objects (LP: #1461936)

= Detailed Changelog =
  * Please check /usr/share/doc/fwts/changelog.Debian.gz or
fwts-15.07.00-0ubuntu1.debian.tar.gz from
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fwts