Today Canonical has released version 15.08.00 of FWTS (FirmWare Test Suite), a set of firmware-related tests for Linux-based systems. The tests can be run via command line, or via a curses front-end, the latter of which is used by the FWS-live distribution. FWTS is also included in Intel’s LUV-live (Linux UEFI Validation) distribution, but it’ll take LUV a bit of time to update to new FWTS release. FWTS is also available as packages on Ubuntu-based distributions.
It appears that most new features are ACPI-related. New ACPI TPM2 and IORT tests, new tables for: FPDT, MCHI, STAO, ASF!, WDAT, and a few other things. There were a lot of bugfixes as well. For more information, see the full announcement, the changelog, and sources:
http://fwts.ubuntu.com/release/fwts-V15.08.00.tar.gz
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fwts
https://launchpad.net/~firmware-testing-team/+archive/ubuntu/ppa-fwts-stable
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FirmwareTestSuite/ReleaseNotes/15.08.00
I wish ALL Linux/FreeBSD distributions would ship FWTS, not just Ubuntu-based ones: FTWS is very useful to detect if system has anomalies which’ll make it difficult to install/use the OS. Granted, those distro uses can just use FWTS-live, but they have to reboot into FWTS-live to use FWTS, with no native packaging.
Firmware Security 