[Hwcert-announce-list] Red Hat v7 Hardware Test Suite v7-1.4-38 GA Available

Thu Nov 10 16:58:48 UTC 2011

Greetings Red Hat Worldwide Partners,

Red Hat is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Red Hat 
v7 hardware test suite GA (v7-1.4-38) for official certification testing 
purposes with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x and 6.x.

The Red Hat v7 hardware test suite GA (v7-1.4-38) package is an official 
release and should be used for Red Hat Enterprise Linux certification 
submissions. Results from the previous Red Hat v7 hardware test suite 
(v7-1.3-46) will continue to be accepted for a period of 90 days in 
keeping with the certification policy.

The Red Hat v7 hardware test suite GA (v7-1.4-38) is available at the 
following locations:

in the Red Hat Network:

   http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1436.html

and on the partner FTP site:

ftp://partners.redhat.com/a166eabc5cf5df158922f9b06e5e7b21/hwcert/RHEL6/v7/1.4/

Highlights of v7-1.4 include:

* 'v7 server' is now separated into its own package (v7-server).

* The kdump test is now separated from reboot into its own test.

* Cpuscaling userspace minimum, maximum and performance run time checks 
replaced with a new Aperf/Mperf frequency calculation.

* The Cpuscaling ondemand run time criteria changes from ±10% expected 
improvement to at least 50% expected improvement.

* The maximum latency in the rteval test increased to 150ms from 100ms.

* 'v7 submit' now builds results.xml.gz results package.

* The export directory on the v7 server is now '/var/www/v7/export'.

The v7-1.4-38 package has been tested against RHEL5 and RHEL6 on the 
x86, x86_64, ppc64, and s390x architectures. If you encounter any 
problems, please file bugs against the 'Red Hat Hardware Certification 
Program' product in Red Hat Bugzilla (https://bugzilla.redhat.com).

Changelog between v7-1.4-36 RC and v7-1.4-38 GA:

747736 - v7 test 'profiler' terminates with backtrace
746918 - cpuscaling failure on v7-1-4-30 cpus don't settle to ...
734476 - RHEL6.1 32bit/64bit V7 cert info test fail - tech preview
743609 - CPU Scaling is failing with AMD Interlagos - user space ...

Changelog between v7-1.4-30 Beta and v7-1.4-36 RC:

748062 v7 1.4 R34 cpuscaling selects wrong measurement method
749068 v7-1.4 is missing the kudzu devices data in hardware.log ...
747433 Fix typo in v7 syntax output
747379 v7 1.4 R32 network test traceback when server validation ...
745212 Traceback on blank Model Name in dmidecode
743609 CPU Scaling is failing with AMD Interlagos - user space ...
741943 v7 fails with AttributeError: CPUScalingTest instance ...
741165 cpuscaling TraceBack: TypeError: int argument required
740002 HWCERT: info test always fails due to kernel modified ...
734985 info: TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or ...
734476 RHEL6.1 32bit/64bit V7 cert info test fail - tech preview
733618 v7 network kdump test passed without setting remote server
731611 udp test is missing in network.py
730932 v7 1.4 server with v7 1.3 SUT fails network test
559834 fv_* is not listed in v7 plan on rhel54-server-ia64-xen ...

Changelog between v7-1.3-46 GA and v7-1.4-30 Beta

521609 v7 plan --server says server has error: /var/v7/export
559834 fv_* is not listed in v7 plan on rhel54-server-ia64-xen system
573598 Test Suite should give a caution when user disable INFO test.
633652 [RFE]: v7 bluray test fail on BD-R disk
684075 the hardware <make/> tag in results.xml is never set.
690676 FEAT: v7 should generate zipped xml file as results
701491 kdump test should improve dependant rpm installation and logging
702140 Unable to determine pass/fail state of logs after packaging ...
702695 v7 server should have its own package
704031 Include additional LVM debugging info in storage test
705326 fv_network is tagged as interactive, v7 --mode auto will ...
705844 interactive tests run in --mode auto should fail
708046 info.py backtraces in checkModuleVenderAndBuildHost with ...
710173 Remove test verification prompt if no errors found
711155 v7: sh: kudzu: command not found
711161 v7 usb test Error: test raised exception on zero-length/non- ...
714848 Preview kernel taint should be error but not warning
716557 Change v7_rteval.py maximum latency from 100us to 150us.
717779 Reboot nfs test does not reliably grab an ip address causing ...
718290 Can the kdump variation of the reboot test be moved to be ...
725441 FEAT: save command should store results on server for review
731322 network test gives 404 when trying fetching files from servers
732113 cpuscaling rewrite
732463 v7 save command saves empty results
736638 v7 storage test won't work on 4K sector storage device
737651 Traceback in v7 cpuscaling test (TypeError: float argument ...
736666 v7 storage test has an improper write/read sequence
736675 v7 storage test sets an improper I/O records
736679 v7 storage test: improper dt options for raw I/O test
737859 bluray incur traceback: BluRayTest instance has no attribute ...
739967 Storage test execution time on 1.4-23 is abnormally long

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