Public bug reported:
Name: bits
Short description: BIOS Implementation Test Suite (BITS) offering
bootable testing of BIOS
Description: The Intel BIOS Implementation Test Suite (BITS) provides a
bootable pre-OS environment for testing BIOSes and in particular their
initialization of Intel processors, hardware, and technologies. BITS can
verify your BIOS against many Intel recommendations. In addition, BITS
includes Intel's official reference code as provided to BIOS, which you
can use to override your BIOS's hardware initialization with a known-
good configuration, and then boot an OS.
BITS functionality fits in three broad categories:
* Validate: run test suites to verify recommendations
* Configure: override BIOS using Intel reference code
* Explore: experimental tools and information gathering
BITS consists of a modified GRUB2 bootloader, with many additional
commands to probe and manipulate hardware configuration, as well as
scripts using these commands to test and reconfigure hardware.
The current version of BITS focuses primarily on CPU configuration and
power management. BITS supplies general tests and functionality for all
Intel x86 platforms, as well as additional specific support for Intel®
processors based on the microarchitecture code name Nehalem and newer,
which includes Intel Core i7, i5, and i3 desktop and mobile processors,
and corresponding Intel Xeon server processors.
License: BITS Open Source license and GPL for grub
URL: http://biosbits.org/
Justification: Packaging this and shipping it with Ubuntu installation
would be a valuable addition to hardware testing such as the bootable
memtest already is.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: needs-packaging
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Title:
[needs-packaging] bits
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