Fwd: Firmwate Test Suite 15.06.00 is released

[Alex Hung]

Hi all:

  FWTS 15.06.00 is released. It is available from:

  Tar: http://fwts.ubuntu.com/release/fwts-V15.06.00.tar.gz
  PPA: https://launchpad.net/~firmware-testing-team/+archive/ubuntu/ppa-fwts-stable

  The release notes are available at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FirmwareTestSuite/ReleaseNotes/15.06.00

= New Features =

  * lib: acpi: add an acpi category
  * live-image/fwts-frontend-text: add selections of acpi and uefi tests
  * acpi: add tests to acpi category
  * acpi: fwts-tests: Remove redundant tailing space and update fwts-tests
  * auto-packager: mkpackage.sh: remove lucid
  * auto-packager: mkpackage.sh: add wily
  * acpi: Add SPCR ACPI table check (LP: #1433604)
  * dmi: dmicheck: add 4 new DMI chassis types

= Fixed Bugs =

  * uefi: uefirtvariable: Add invalid NULL parameter sanity checks
  * lib: fwts_acpi_tables: print correct pathname on error
  * lib: fwts_acpi_tables: set count correctly on error
  * lib: fwts_acpi_tables: only attempt to open a dumpfile if name is defined
  * pci: aspm: check that a table exists, fixes segv on arm64
  * lib: fwts_smbios: only scan memory for DMI table if x86
  * acpi: spcr: remove unnecessary include files and fix ARM build issue
  * pci: maxreadreq: skip test if /sys/bus/pci/devices is not available
  * acpi: spcr: issue a passed message if SPCR test passes
  * lib: fwts_alloc: provide fallback low memory allocator strategy
(LP: #1452168)
  * bios: mtrr: fix memory leak on mtrr entries
  * hotkey: only process reads of hotkey events that are at least the
correct length
  * uefi: uefirtvariable: fix incorrect buffer size being passed
  * lib: fwts_acpi_tables: enforce stricter table loading checks
  * lib: acpica: explicitly set buffer to NULL to remove cppcheck warning
  * acpica: fwts_iasl_interface: clean up static analyzer warning on freopen
  * lib: fwts_pipe: clean up static analyzer warning on freopen
  * uefi: efi_runtime: eliminate confusing error message of get_variable
  * acpi: method: _PRS is not mandatory method
  * acpi: acpitables: FADT: Ignore fields at offset 46 through 108 for
HW_REDUCED_ACPI
  * efi_runtime: get_nextvariablename: Fix bug of name string copy
  * fwts: Add fwts_firmware_has_features
  * fwts: Only run firmware detection once
  * fwts: Allow tests to be conditional on available features
  * fwts: Print names of missing features, rather than a cryptic bitmask
  * fwts: Add FWTS_FW_FEATURE_DEVICETREE
  * fwts: Add OPAL firmware type
  * cpu/cpufreq: Don't reparse cpu information
  * cpu/cpufreq: hz_almost_equal is unused if !FWTS_ARCH_INTEL
  * cpu/cpufreq: Add a separate cpufreq consistency test
  * cpu/cpufreq: Add test for duplicate entries in cpufreq tables
  * cpu/cpufreq: Do bios limit and claimed max checks as separate tests
  * cpu/cpufreq: Refactor CPU performance tests
  * cpu/cpufreq: Always check that cpufreq changes have taken
  * fwts: Use linux perf counters for cpu benchmarking
  * fwts: Use gettimeofday for cpu benchmark
  * fwts: scale cpu benchmark results to one second
  * cpu/cpufreq: Only run performance tests on master threads

= Known Issues =
  * armhf builds fail on precise and trusty

= Detailed Changelog =
  * Please check /usr/share/doc/fwts/changelog.Debian.gz or
fwts-15.06.00-0ubuntu1.debian.tar.gz from
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fwts