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