tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1016709139053396535.post5710419072669210834..comments2024-03-18T17:34:35.079+00:00Comments on A Smackerel of Opinion: Firmware Test Suite: BIOS+ACPI health checkColin Ian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06458723239721015750noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1016709139053396535.post-5955128487430152992012-06-12T20:01:57.204+01:002012-06-12T20:01:57.204+01:00The 600M is a fairly old bit of kit, and from what...The 600M is a fairly old bit of kit, and from what I gather from various bug reports the ACPI tables aren't great with Linux. Since it's not going to be fixed with any BIOS updates, I doubt there is much we can easily do for such an old machine.Colin Ian Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06458723239721015750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1016709139053396535.post-40754168397635537662012-06-06T02:26:35.916+01:002012-06-06T02:26:35.916+01:00I am having problems with a Dell Inspiron 600m. I...I am having problems with a Dell Inspiron 600m. It will only work with acpi=off. All other modifiers don't help. So I thought that maybe I have some corrupted ACPI tables and came across your site and your program fwts. I have plenty of error messages. Is there any way to know how to fix them?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09593683999344491437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1016709139053396535.post-19084131536532998142010-09-02T14:02:29.368+01:002010-09-02T14:02:29.368+01:00@Kevin, we do have an engineer from Canonical atte...@Kevin, we do have an engineer from Canonical attending the UEFI Forum plugfest. Can you send me an Email colin.king at canonical.com and I will sort out the various details.Colin Ian Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06458723239721015750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1016709139053396535.post-90012748013132957092010-09-01T17:59:41.973+01:002010-09-01T17:59:41.973+01:00Have you or someone else from Canonical considered...Have you or someone else from Canonical considered using this at the upcoming UEFI Forum plugfest in Taipei during October?Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06803363677029330010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1016709139053396535.post-73766583409834834412010-08-17T07:01:48.725+01:002010-08-17T07:01:48.725+01:00@jado92mx, at the moment another tool for the Live...@jado92mx, at the moment another tool for the LiveCD/USB means we got to cram more on the ISO and there is only so much one can cram on a CD image.<br /><br />The tool is part of a downloadable USB key image http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/testing/maverick-desktop-i386-fwts.img which designed to boot and run this test automatically.Colin Ian Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06458723239721015750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1016709139053396535.post-2826896440528560302010-08-17T06:58:31.331+01:002010-08-17T06:58:31.331+01:00@mampf, I suggest capturing the output from dmesg ...@mampf, I suggest capturing the output from dmesg and sending it to me - colin.king at canonical.comColin Ian Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06458723239721015750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1016709139053396535.post-26229579120163484142010-08-17T06:02:07.509+01:002010-08-17T06:02:07.509+01:00I'm giving a chance to your app, looks useful,...I'm giving a chance to your app, looks useful, I hope it would be part of the Ubuntu's LiveCD/USB, like a startup option, or just for invoking it into a user terminal...<br /><br />Greetings,<br />JaD!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1016709139053396535.post-14907094230124735592010-08-16T20:32:56.375+01:002010-08-16T20:32:56.375+01:00Hi,
I cannot report bugs on launchpad, But I get ...Hi,<br /><br />I cannot report bugs on launchpad, But I get two segmentation faults.<br /><br />(ben@oberth)[~] $ sudo fwts -p --fwts-debug dmesg_common<br />0001 16/07/10 21:24:50 fwts fwts_framework_run_registered_tests() - run test dmesg_common<br />0002 16/07/10 21:24:50 fwts fwts_framework_run_registered_tests() - test dmesg_common<br />0003 16/07/10 21:24:50 fwts fwts_framework_run_test() entered<br />0006 16/07/10 21:24:50 fwts fwts_framework_run_test() calling ops->init()<br />0007 16/07/10 21:24:50 fwts exectuting test 1<br />Segmentation fault : 0%Benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03204135966008039989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1016709139053396535.post-1641100300798035162010-08-14T19:20:39.841+01:002010-08-14T19:20:39.841+01:00Hi Colin,
Nice Work, that Tool is awesome :-)Hi Colin,<br /><br />Nice Work, that Tool is awesome :-)Marcel.Mnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1016709139053396535.post-33718222219354919042010-08-11T15:33:36.121+01:002010-08-11T15:33:36.121+01:00Congratulation....Colin.Congratulation....Colin.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13663776370944951838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1016709139053396535.post-73436243384216838522010-08-10T14:25:00.823+01:002010-08-10T14:25:00.823+01:00Kevin, when I spoke to Intel back in May I was tol...Kevin, when I spoke to Intel back in May I was told "AFAIK there's no one from Intel supporting the toolkit at this point." which was one of the many reasons for picking up some of the (ageing) goodness from there as a starting point.Colin Ian Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06458723239721015750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1016709139053396535.post-60678911160952546402010-08-10T13:10:54.125+01:002010-08-10T13:10:54.125+01:00Hi,
Is firmwarekit upstream dead? Any chance you...Hi,<br /><br />Is firmwarekit upstream dead? Any chance you can push the tests back upstream or take on a maintainer role there?Kevin Bowlinghttp://www.kev009.comnoreply@blogger.com