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FWTS 15.11.00 released

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Alex Hung of Canonlical has announced the release of FWTS (FirmWare Test Suite) version 15.11.00, the November 2015 quarterly release, with multiple changes to the UEFI and ACPI tools.

= Significant Updates =
 * Update ACPICA to version 20150930

= New Features =
  * Add in the notion of ACPI compliance tests.
  * MADT subtables: Local SAPIC structure has 3 reserved bytes, not 1
  * ACPI: MADT: update GICC flag checks for ACPI 6.0
  * ACPI: MADT: further update to GICC flag checks for 6.0
  * acpi: method: skip scope names in method_evaluate_method
  * acpi: method: add _GPE test
  * acpi: method: add _TSN test
  * acpi: method: add _TFP test
  * acpi: method: add _EC test
  * acpi: method: add _CWS test
  * acpi: method: add _BTH test
  * auto-packager: mkpackage.sh: add xenial
  * acpi: tpm2: add check for zero control area address (LP: #1506442)
  * securebootcert: change fail to warning when MS UEFI CA not found in DB
  * lib: fwts_uefi: add BMC device path define
  * uefidump: add dumping the BMC device path
  * uefibootpath: add test for the BMC device path
  * lib: fwts_uefi: add the URI device path define
  * uefibootpath: add test for the URI device path
  * uefidump: add dumping for the URI device path
  * lib: fwts_uefi: add the UFS device path define
  * uefidump: add dumping for the UFS device path
  * uefibootpath: add test for the UFS device path

= Fixed Bugs =
  * dmi: dmicheck: fix SMBIOS issues on aarch64 systems
  * acpidump: add missing reserved fields to MADT structures
  * cpufreq: the calibration is taking a long time, make it faster
  * acpi: tcpa: replace tab with spaces to fix formatting alignment

More Information:

http://fwts.ubuntu.com/release/fwts-V15.11.00.tar.gz
https://launchpad.net/~firmware-testing-team/+archive/ubuntu/ppa-fwts-stable
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FirmwareTestSuite/ReleaseNotes/15.11.00
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fwts

 

FWTS 15.08.00 released

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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 Test Suite 15.07.00 released

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[Update: Colin King also blogged about this release:
http://smackerelofopinion.blogspot.com/2015/07/new-acpi-table-tests-in-fwts150700.html ]

Today Alex Hung of Canonical announced the latest release of FWTS, the FirmWare Test Suite.

Tar: http://fwts.ubuntu.com/release/fwts-V15.07.00.tar.gz
PPA: https://launchpad.net/~firmware-testing-team/+archive/ubuntu/ppa-fwts-stable
Release Notes: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FirmwareTestSuite/ReleaseNotes/15.07.00

Changes to existing Features:
* –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)

Firmware Test Suite 15.06.00 released

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Today Alex Hung of Canonical announced the availability of FWTS (FirmWare TestSuite) version 15.06.00. FTWS is useful to determine if your system has operational hardware/firmware. Besides command line tests, it has a curses front-end UI, and a FTWS-live distribution; FWTS tests are also included in LUVos, though I’m not sure if LUV is synced to the latest FWTS yet.

New Features:
  * lib: acpi: add an acpi category
  * live-image/fwts-frontend-text: add selections of acpi and uefi tests
  * acpi: add tests to acpi category
  * acpi: fwts-tests: Remove redundant tailing space and update fwts-tests
  * auto-packager: mkpackage.sh: remove lucid
  * auto-packager: mkpackage.sh: add wily
  * acpi: Add SPCR ACPI table check (LP: #1433604)
  * dmi: dmicheck: add 4 new DMI chassis types

More Information:

http://fwts.ubuntu.com/release/fwts-V15.06.00.tar.gz
https://launchpad.net/~firmware-testing-team/+archive/ubuntu/ppa-fwts-stable
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FirmwareTestSuite/ReleaseNotes/15.06.00
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fwts