Greetings all, I've been busy trying to improve fwts for the Natty release and I'm now up to version V0.19.19. So what is new?
== Recent changes in the development version of fwts == PPA: https://launchpad.net/~firmware-testing-team/+archive/ppa-firmware-test === New tests === acpitables: Sanity check key fields in ECDT, FACS, HPET, FADT, RSDP, RSDT, SBST, XSDT tables. This will be expanded over time, but I've got picked the fields that cover most common issues we see. smbios: Initial SMBIOS checks (very basic at the moment!). To get this fully implemented requires a lot of work, so it's a low priority task for me to complete someday... I've moved the huge klog kernel log scanning tables out of source and into a json format data file into /usr/share/fwts. These can be now imported by Python scripts and makes way for us to do some apport scripting using the data. === New options === * add klog auto-generated LP tags. --lp-tags option. The current tag names are place holders until an agreed tag naming convention can be settled upon. The tagging info is associated with the klog json data, so we hope to eventually automate auto-tagging from withing apport or some LP enabled Python scripts that use the json data. * --stdout-summary now outputs FAILED_CRITICAL, FAILED_HIGH, FAILED_MEDIUM, FAILED_LOW, PASSED, ABORTED, SKIPPED status words * add --show-tests-full to dump out tests and their sub-tests headlines * add --dumpfile to allow one to load tables from output of fwts --dump (e.g. acpidump.log file) or from output from acpidump * add -q --quiets option to turn off -p * add -t as short form of --table-path * add -k as short form of --klog * make -p (--show-progress) option default and make the progress feedback more useful. === Changes to tests === * mtrr: use MTRRIOC_GET_ENTRY ioctl() rather than parsing /proc/mtrr * maxfreq: add 0.5% tolerance when comparing CPU frequency with BIOS to stop a load of false fails. * cpufreq: make this a batch experimental test - this test needs full validation to sanity check it works as desired before making it non-experimental again. * klog test: add checks for: BIOS IRQ routing queries BIOS32 service failures AE_TIME timeout errors doing EC read/write transactions detect multiple MADTs Thanks to all who've been sending my patches and ideas for improvements. I appreciate the feedback! Colin _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~firmware-testing-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~firmware-testing-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
