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