The Intel LUV team, at least including: Gayatri Kammela (12), Megha Dey (12), Naresh Bhat (1), and Ricardo Neri (46) have released 2.0 of LUV, the Linux UEFI Validation Project.
These are the highlights of the release:
*Different types of image available (i386 and x86_x64)
*Logging and debugging via network (or serial)
*Tests for persistent memory (NVDIMM)
*Support for i386
*Booting LUV via network (PXE, HTTP boot later)
*Miscellaneous updates (BITS perf improvements, Linux 4.4 kernel, …)
*Dropped support for fido (focus is on Jethro)
*Known issues and limitations (Debugging works only over Ethernet, not WiFi, …)
Read the full announcement, there are pages of details not included here.
One new feature is i386 support. LUV 1.x was x64-centric, now we hopefully also use LUV 2.0 for testing x86 systems! But signed shim is still only available for 64-bit, so Secure Boot is not enabled for 32-bit support [yet?]. Quoting the release notes: “At the last minute we faced a kernel issue when booting on a i386-based system. We are debugging. Once this is cleared, a bootable image will be uploaded (issue #76 on [3])”
Full announcement:
https://lists.01.org/pipermail/luv/2016-April/001035.html
https://download.01.org/linux-uefi-validation/v2.0
https://download.01.org/linux-uefi-validation/v2.0/sha256_sums.asc
[1]. https://github.com/01org/luv-yocto/tree/master/meta-luv
[2]. https://github.com/pmem/ndctl
[3]. https://github.com/01org/luv-yocto
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