[Hwcert-announce-list] [Red Hat Partner Announcement] Red Hat v7 Hardware Test Suite Beta (v7-1.3-19) Available

[Rob Landry]

Greetings Red Hat Worldwide Partners,

Red Hat is pleased to announce the availability of the Red Hat v7 
hardware test suite Beta (v7-1.3-19) for software testing purposes with 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

The Red Hat v7 hardware test suite Beta package is not an official 
release and should not be used for official Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
certification testing submissions. The current Red Hat v7 hardware test 
suite (v7-1.2-25) should continue to be used for official certifications 
of both Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x and 6. Instead, Red Hat is 
requesting that partners who participate in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
certification test this beta version of the v7 hardware test suite Beta 
release and provide Red Hat with feedback. Your feedback will be 
incorporated into the final version of the v7-1.3 hardware test suite.

The Red Hat v7 hardware test suite Beta is available at the following 
location:

ftp://partners.redhat.com/a166eabc5cf5df158922f9b06e5e7b21/hwcert/


Highlights of this v7 hardware test suite Beta include:

* In an effort to better support hardware control in RHEL6 and 
TurboBoost enabled processors, the cpuscaling test has been restructured 
to execute against a package instead of per core. Test planning for the 
cpuscaling test is impacted by this change; cpuscaling will schedule 
once per system instead of for each core.

* The network test now uses http instead of nfs during the file transfer.

* The network test now requires a server with a matching version of v7. 
For example, a system under test with V7-1.3 installed must be connected 
to a v7 server running v7-1.3 as well.

* A wireless test (wlan) has been added. The wlan test is designed to 
gather information for wireless devices. The network test continues as 
the functional (send/receive) test.

* The kdump test will now do a validation litmus test on the resulting 
vmcore.

The v7-1.3 Beta package has been smoke tested on RHEL6.1 Alpha and Beta 
on the x86, x86_64, ppc64, and s390x architectures. Some regression 
testing has also been performed, and we expect additional bug discovery. 
If you encounter any problems with this v7-1.3 Beta, please file bugs 
against the 'Red Hat Hardware Certification Program' product in Red Hat 
Bugzilla (https://bugzilla.redhat.com).


Changelog between v7-1.2-25 and v7-1.3-19:

649314 - v7 returns 1 on successful run
649729 - RHEL5 fv_tests may fail on initial run due to kvm modules not ...
642029 - USB SCSI tape drives cause: UnicodeEncodeError
659789 - Enhance command set for better usability and control of testing
646277 - core test reports PASS when clock jitter test fails
670989 - test fails with a traceback when saving test log
589806 - 1.1-23 man page says it's version 1.0-21
617646 - print --report full does not show guest logs/results for fv_* 
tests
640138 - CPUSCALING fails with traceback on non-repeatable performance 
test ...
668041 - v7 virtualization tests should log image meta-data
589425 - Please return the minor RHEL version back in info output
654960 - info test reports a pass even though kernel validation fails.
627043 - HWCert: RedHat v7-1.2-16 network test on sit0 interface fails
623787 - core test - stress portion should scale for memory size
607976 - sosreport: error: no such option: --no-progressbar
589739 - CPUSCALING test includes unprocessed tags around displayed text
682672 - reboot testing abort on RHEL6.1
681470 - v7 submit fail on ppc64
678984 - can't find tape device on RHEL6.1
678974 - pccard testing fail on v7-1.3-10
678642 - Error output is missing line breaks
678180 - cpuscaling verify traceback when unable to find cpufreq 
directories
674375 - v7 certify misses tests where one of several devices has passed
579498 - RH cert suite cpuscaling test fails Nehalem-EX procs
680225 - network test should use HTTP for file transfer tests rather 
than NFS
626970 - FEAT: kdump test needs to verify kdump
682969 - v7 certify test have no return value
676239 - v7 Coverage for loading Tech Preview device drivers in RHEL6.1
678949 - oprofiled did not start on Nehalem-EX platform
682115 - RHEL 6.1 fv tests fail on spurious stderr output
688748 - network test fails in http transfer - v7 server directory ...


Known Issues list for v7-1.3-19 on RHEL 6.1:

- The FV data image includes v7-1.2 not v7-1.3; bug 689465.
- The cpuscaling test is missing a register check; bug 579498.
- The kdump test does not retrieve vmcores from network exports; bug 
626970.
- Dependency on kernel-debuginfo may cause issues on some releases; bug 
626970.
- Large systems may fail the kdump test due to large vmcores; bug 635973.


Red Hat values your ongoing participation and testing in the Red Hat 
Enterprise Linux development, testing and certifications efforts. Thank 
you for your continued partnership. If you have any questions or 
comments, please do not hesitate to contact your Partner Manager or 
Technical Account Manager.

Regards,

The Red Hat Hardware Certification Team