The Linux-ready Firmware Developer Kit team is pleased to announce the release R3 of the kit.
The project is fairly stable at this point, but there are still many new, exciting additions to the kit such as Linux PowerTop 1.8, a tool to monitor power usage, c-states and p-states. See http://www.linuxpowertop.org/ for more info. The default kernels that are tested by the kit are also updated to now include: kernel.org 2.6.22-9, FC6, Ubuntu 7.04 and Mandriva 2007.1. There are also changes to make it as simple as possible to build your own customized firmwarekit to include the kernels _you_ care about. Corresponding documentation is, of course, included. See 'HOWTO_CustomizeISO.txt' for easy instructions. The Linux-ready Firmware Developer Kit is a tool to test how well Linux works together with the firmware (BIOS or EFI) of your machine, and is designed for use by both firmware development teams and Linux kernel hackers to prevent and diagnose firmware bugs. Summary ======= Enhancements ============ * Added Ubuntu 7.04 kernel and Mandriva 2007.1 kernel as part of the kernels to test * Added error log for the plugins' stderr outputs (lfdk.err.log) * Root 'make' now just strictly compiles the plugins, leaving the downloading and other tasks to 'make iso'. * Re-org of extracting acpi tables in a more logical, efficient way (thanks to Thomas Reninger) * Updated microcode .dat file * Versioning is now soft-coded with get_lfdk_ver() instead of hard-coded * Removed all hard-coded instances of system commands, and instead created get_relative_command() * Results now strictly in .txt format, removed .xml. * Bug-fixes and maintenance * More & updated documentation including: - HOWTO_CustomizeISO - add your own kernels to the kit for testing - HOWTO_WritePluginTest - easy steps in how to write your own plugin tests - Implementation section of README (finally) - overview of the implementation of the kit New Tests ========= * Virtualization tests for svm and vmx submitted by Lijo Lazar * (experimental) DMAR to test the health of the acpi DMAR tables (original patch by Shaohua Li from Intel) * Linux PowerTop 1.8 * Added test in pci resource plugin for failure to allocate memory resources (refer to Linus' comment in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7917) You can download this latest release of the kit from http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org The Linux-ready Firmware Developer Kit team Jacob Pan Rolla Selbak Arjan van de Ven (please cc my email on any replies or comments) Thanks, rs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
