Hi all, Another week, and some more features! While waiting for some kernels to compile I managed to squeeze in a few more features into the Firmware Test Suite...
A new version of fwts 0.21.03 is now available in the PPA ppa:firmware-testing-team/ppa-firmware-test-suite-natty-stable. So what's new? == UEFI dump == I've added a utility called "uefidump" which will parse the raw variable data in /sys/firmware/efi/vars/ and will dump each variable in an annotate form where possible. To run this, and dump data to stdout, use: sudo fwts uefidump - Below is example of some of the output: 00047 uefidump Name: Boot0002. 00048 uefidump GUID: 8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c 00049 uefidump Attr: 0x7 (NonVolatile,BootServ,RunTime). 00050 uefidump Active: Yes 00051 uefidump Info: EFI DVD/CDROM 00052 uefidump Path:\ACPI(0xa0341d0,0x0)\PCI(0x2,0x1f) \ATAPI(0x1,0x0,0x0). ... ... 00162 uefidump 00163 uefidump Name: LangCodes. 00164 uefidump GUID: 8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c 00165 uefidump Attr: 0x6 (BootServ,RunTime). 00166 uefidump Language Codes: eng,fra,eng,fra. 00167 uefidump It is certainly more helpful than looking at hex dump using od on the raw data. == Extra S4 test options == To enable some level of sleeping between each S4 cycle, we've now added --s4-min-delay, --s4-max-delay, --s4-delay-delta options, identical to the --s3 options of the same name. This allows one to specify a varying time delay between each S4 cycle, ranging from --s4-min-delay (in seconds) to --s4-max-delay (in seconds). Each iteration adds a delay specified by --s4-delay-delta and on reaching --s4-max-delay the delay resets back to --s4-min-delay. This can be useful when soak testing S4 issues because varying the awake time can sometimes trip bugs - for example wireless drivers have been known to panic when going into a sleep state while they were attempting to associate after a wakeup. Below, we run 250 tests, with a delay between each hibernate ranging from 1 second to 30 seconds, and an increment per cycle of 0.5 seconds: sudo fwts s4 --s4-min-delay=1 --s4-max-delay=30 --s4-delay=delta=0.5 --s4-multiple=250 == klog tests == I spotted another minor test case where AML code can attempt to access reserved I/O ports and the ACPI driver rejects these with an error message. This is now tested for in the klog test. That's about it for this week. _______________________________________________ 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
