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 * fully document tool: [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Reference/fwts|https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Reference/fwts]]

Summary

While the first 10 months of development of the Firmware Test Suite provided a reasonable first-cut of the tool, there are some short comings and features need to be enhanced to make the tool even better at identifying BIOS/firmware issues.

Items for discussion:

  • Ways to get greater adoption of fwts - what can we do better?
  • Deficiencies and issues with current version
  • Features that need including.

Some work items were not included in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty which have been postponed to 11.10:

Create a basic BIOS tracking working/broken features against vendor, version Identify ACPI errors in the kernel log and report them via apport.

And some feature requests for 11.10 are as follows:

  • Better UEFI support.
  • Improved SMBIOS checking.
  • Catching IRQ mis-routing issues.
  • Automated kernel error message extraction to help keep klog test in sync with kernel.
  • Need to target fwts on the server side, so build bootable image without the need for a desktop.
  • Dump/validate EFI_SYSTEM_TABLE (signature 0x5453595320494249)

And for discussion:

Integration/Usage with checkbox like test tools and general QA usage

Identifying BIOS/ACPI/UEFI issues recorded in LaunchPad and constructing tests to check for these.

Release Note

New features implemented this cycle:

  • wmi: check for known GUIDs
  • s3power: check power loss during suspend.
  • Add unique IDs for failed tests messages.
  • s3/s4 device quiescence checking.
  • Bootable ISO image (non-desktop, so works for server checking)
  • tested against thousands of bug reports
  • stability - many bug fixes.
  • fully document tool: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Reference/fwts

Rationale

Need to extend the test suite to cater for new UEFI firmware.

Implementation

This section should describe a plan of action (the "how") to implement the changes discussed. Could include subsections like:

Unresolved issues (as of 16/09/2011)

The original plan was to port the fwts framework to UEFI and plug in UEFI specific tests. However, we now see that the BITS project may be a good platform to get a grub2 UEFI bootable image to plug in UEFI specific protocol tests. This has been postponed for Oneiric and should be re-visitied for Oneiric+1.

BoF agenda and discussion

Use this section to take notes during the BoF; if you keep it in the approved spec, use it for summarising what was discussed and note any options that were rejected.


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