Ivan Hu of Canonical announced the 10.01.00 release of FWTS, the FirmWare Test Suite, which uses a fresh ACPIC, and includes with some new ACPI and UEFI test features, including supporting some new UEFI 2.5 variables.
Significant Updates:
* ACPICA: Update to version 20160108 (LP: #1532268)
New Features:
* acpi: method: add _PTC test
* sync with uefi 2.5 global variables
* uefidump: add dumping global variabl AuditMode
* uefidump: add dumping global variabl DeployedMode
* uefidump: add dumping global variable OsRecoveryOrder
* uefidump: add dumping global variable PlatformRecovery####
* uefidump: add dumping global variable SysPrepOrder
* uefidump: add dumping global variable SysPrep####
* ACPICA: Update to version 20151218 (LP: #1527733)
* esrtdump: add dumping for esrt table (LP: #1532103)
See full changelog for list of bugs fixed.
http://fwts.ubuntu.com/release/fwts-V16.01.00.tar.gz
https://launchpad.net/~firmware-testing-team/+archive/ubuntu/ppa-fwts-stable
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FirmwareTestSuite/ReleaseNotes/16.01.00
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fwts
https://lists.01.org/pipermail/luv/2016-January/000777.html
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