hardware-kernel-o-fwts-enhancements

Revision 1 as of 2011-04-05 10:01:04

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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.

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.

And for discussion:

Integration/Usage with checkbox and general QA usage.

Release Note

This should not have any impact on the release notes.

Rationale

Need to target fwts on the server side, so build bootable image without the need for a desktop.

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

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Design

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Unresolved issues

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