[Hwcert-announce-list] Red Hat v7 Hardware Test Suite Alpha (v7-1.0-26) Released

[Rob Landry]

Greetings Red Hat Worldwide Partners,

Red Hat is pleased to announce the availability of the Red Hat v7
hardware test suite Alpha (v7-1.0-26) for software testing purposes with
Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 4 and 5.

In addition, partners may begin testing with Red Hat v7 hardware test
suite v7-1.0-26 against RHEL 6 test releases when available. Red Hat will
officially update the Red Hat v7 hardware test suite before RHEL 6 GA and
will let partners know when to begin official RHEL 6 Hardware Certification
testing.

The Red Hat v7 hardware test suite Alpha (1.0-26) package is not
considered an official release and should not be used for official
certification testing submissions.  The current Red Hat v7 hardware test
suite (v7-1.0-18) should continue to be used for official certifications
of both Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x and 5.x.

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

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


Highlights:

* The fv_* tests have been updated to support KVM.

* A new rteval test has been added to support performing certifications
for the MRG product.

* The rteval test requires a newer version of rteval than is currently
available in RHN.  This package has been made available on the partner
ftp site next to the v7 test suite under the ~/RHEL5 tree.

* HTS v7 now supports plan time rpm requirement checking; this allow
tests to request additional packages when they are planned that may not
already be installed on the system using yum.

* The alpha package has passed smoke testing on RHEL 5.3 x86, x86_64, and
ia64; other releases and architectures have not yet been tested.


If you encounter any problems please file any bugs against the 'Red Hat
Hardware Certification Program' product in Red Hat Bugzilla
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com).


Changelog from v7-1.0-18 to v7-1.0-26:

555045 -  v7 R23 traceback on submit command - invalid device data
554915 -  FEAT: v7 needs a RTEval test
523824 -  FEAT: v7 should fv_* tests should support KVM
488145 -  FEAT: HTS should provide a run-time dependency option for ...
474856 -  CPUScaling Fails in HTS 5.3-3
525736 -  Feat: CLI to manually provide/override vendor/make/model ...
526071 -  v7 man page refers to --last option as "--latest"
548517 -  v7 plan traceback: no such attribute runForVirtualization
517311 -  submit command causes a traceback if no tests have run
536929 -  v7 should augment HAL device detection with other sources
484657 -  hts uses code deprecated in python 2.6
526310 -  v7 fails TPS Verify test on RHEL4 due to selinux context settings

Known Issues:

Bug 192245 -  info test should call sosreport instead of sysreport
Bug 555839 -  plan in rteval should not print errors on non-rt kernels
Bug 555840 -  plan in rteval should key on an RT specific item instead ...
Bug 555841 -  v7 should include max latency testing for realtime
Bug 555842 -  tests should make use of runtime requires feature


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.