Hi all, == New Features ==
Another week, and another new feature. Over the past few weeks fwts has been used heavily for S4 soak testing on various systems and I've observed that the tool isn't picking up any misbehaving drivers that may be oopsing over S4 cycles. So I've added an oops detection for S3 and S4 tests ensure sure suspend and hibernate work reliably in terms of functionality and also in driver reliability. I've also made the oops detection a standalone test too, so we can pick up any oopses in the generic test case. This is not strictly inside the fwts remit since it's not a firmware test, but I think it's helpful addition test to save one manually eye-balling the kernel logs for oops messages. To run and get results to stdout, use: fwts oops - Or to scan logs gathered from bug reports, use: fwts oops -k dmesg.log - == PPAs == I've had a lot of people asking me for a Ubuntu Maverick specific PPA for fwts, so I've re-organised the PPAs a little. For each release (Maverick, Natty, Natty+1, etc) I will have two PPAs: -devel - to pick up the latest fwts features. It will contain the latest cutting edge features and will probably be updated weekly (or more frequently if I spot bugs!). I will try and ensure this is kept up to date in all releases, so one can always get the latest code in all releases from Maverick onwards. -stable - for the stable code. This will contain the tried and tested code for a release and will *freeze* at release freeze time. There after this code will only be updated with minor bug fixes and no new features. For example, the maverick-stable is frozen at version V0.18.05 and won't change much now, however natty-stable will still be updated periodically with "tried and tested" newer code that makes it into Universe right up to release freeze time. The -stable PPAs contains code that get into Universe, hence it's "stable" and changes are very conservative after feature freeze. So, for Maverick, we have: ppa:firmware-testing-team/ppa-firmware-test-suite-maverick-devel ppa:firmware-testing-team/ppa-firmware-test-suite-maverick-stable And for Natty, we have: ppa:firmware-testing-team/ppa-firmware-test-suite-natty-devel ppa:firmware-testing-team/ppa-firmware-test-suite-natty-stable Hence, to install fwts, select the appropriate ppa and install using: sudo add-apt-repository <ppa name> sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install fwts I hope this is an improvement on the original PPA arrangement. 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
