fwts 0.26.03-rc1 review

[Colin Ian King]

On 17/12/12 07:44, Keng-Yu Lin wrote:
> Hi all:
>    We have got quite a few new changes since the last release. Let's
> move on to the rc stage for updating/solving the fwts-test failures
> before it gets out of control.
>
>    The tag 0.26.03-rc1 is pushed to both fwts and fwts-test git trees.
> And the release tarball is available at
> http://fwts.ubuntu.com/release-rc/fwts-V0.26.03-rc1.tar.gz.
>
>    The fwts-test failure log is attached in the mail.
>
>    fwts changelog:
>
> fwts (0.26.03-1) raring; urgency=low
>
>    [Colin Ian King]
>    * data: klog.json: fix up and correct a few miscellaneous klog items
>    * data: klog.json: promote EC error so it gets caught before generic handler
>    * kernel: version: make test infoonly rather than pass/fail tests
>    * cpu: cpufreq: spell Ghz as GHz and Mhz and MHz
>    * cpu: cpufreq: Make this test no longer experimental.
>    * lib: fwts_pipeio: fwts_pipe_exec() should return FWTS_ERROR instead of -1
>    * lib + tests: modify fwts_pipe_exec to return the child exit status
>    * acpi: apicinstance: make this an Intel x86 only test
>    * acpi: method: handle ACPI failures a little more gracefully
>    * apci: aspm: clean up messages
>    * acpi: acpidump: print a message if no ACPI tables could be found.
>    * lib: fwts_dump_data: tidy up code, ensure we limit nbytes to 16
>    * data: klog.json: Add next 20 or so ACPI_ERROR messages
>    * utilities: kernelscan: Add check for ACPI_ERROR_METHOD kernel errors
>    * data/klog.json: Scan for all the ACPI_ERROR_METHOD kernel errors
>    * acpi: acpidump: fix formatting of bit fields
>    * data/klog.json: Update a parse/execution failure advice line
>    * acpi: acpiinfo: Complete reworking to bring it up to date.
>    * acpi: fadt: only perform port read on valid port widths
>    * pci: aspm: make pcie_capability a packed struct type
>    * bios: mtrr: remove unused VGA region check
>    * bios: mtrr: move buffer memset() to after failed is declared.
>    * bios: mtrr: make the failed flag a boolean
>    * bios: mtrr: make is_prefetchable() return a bool type
>    * bios: mtrr: make skiperror a boolean
>    * acpi: dmar: Make this test no longer experimental.
>    * lib: fwts_cmos: fix build error with non-Intel architectures
>    * lib: fwts_smbios: fix build error with non-Intel architectures
>    * lib: fwts_virt: fix non-Intel build errors
>    * acpi: pcc: make this test an Intel only test
>    * bios: mtrr: make prefetchable checks handle lspci exec failures
>    * bios: mtrr: remove mtrr_test4 because we're removed FWTS_TEST_VGA_REGION
>    * lib, tests: remove fwts common test, merge into fwts klog
>
>    [Ivan Hu]
>    * uefirtvariable: Add new test for UEFI runtime GetVariable
>    * uefirtvariable: Add new test for UEFI runtime GetNextVariableName
>    * uefirtvariable: Add new test for UEFI runtime SetVariable, subtest 1
>    * uefirtvariable: Add new test for UEFI runtime SetVariable, subtest 2
>    * uefirtvariable: Add new test for UEFI runtime SetVariable, subtest 3
>    * uefirtvariable: Add new test for UEFI runtime SetVariable, subtest 4
>    * uefirtvariable: Add new test for UEFI runtime SetVariable, subtest 5
>
>
>    fwts-test changeslog:
>    None
>
>    cheers,
> -kengyu
>
>
>
I'll attend to the fwts-test failures today.  Since there are still a 
bunch of patches outstanding can we push out another release early in 
2013 with these patches too?

Colin