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Firmware Test Suite - version test

This test simply gathers the kernel version and ACPI versions. Typical output from this test is as follows: 

00013 version         Gather kernel system information.
00014 version         ----------------------------------------------------------------------
00015 version         Test 1 of 3: Gather kernel signature.
00016 version         PASSED: Test 1, Signature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.48-generic 2.6.38.8 
00017 version         
00018 version         Test 2 of 3: Gather kernel system information.
00019 version         PASSED: Test 2, Kernel Version: Linux version 2.6.38-11-generic
00020 version         (buildd@rothera) (gcc version 4.5.2 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.5.2-8ubuntu4) )
00021 version         #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 29 19:05:14 UTC 2011 
00022 version         
00023 version         Test 3 of 3: Gather APCI driver version.
00024 version         PASSED: Test 3, ACPI Version: 20110112

Examples:

sudo fwts version -

Explanation of test results

Certain test results may require a little more explanation. This section will try and give some context to specific test failures.

Error ID

Explanation

KernelProcVersion

Cannot get version info from /proc/version. Is /proc mounted?

KernelACPIVersion

Cannot get ACPI version info from /sys/module/acpi/parameters/acpica_version or /proc/acpi/info. Is /sys or /proc mounted?