[Hwcert-announce-list] Red Hat v7 Hardware Test Suite Release Candidate (v7-1.4-36) Available

[Engineering Partner Management]

Greetings Red Hat Worldwide Partners,

Red Hat is pleased to announce the availability of the Red Hat v7 
hardware test suite Release Candidate (v7-1.4-36) for testing purposes 
with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x and 6.x.

The Red Hat v7 hardware test suite RC package (v7-1.4-36) is *not* an 
official release and should be *not* used for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
certification submissions. The current Red Hat v7 hardware test suite 
(v7-1.3-46) should continue to be used for official certifications.

The Red Hat v7 hardware test suite RC (v7-1.4-36) is available at the 
following location:

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.


Change highlights of the v7-1.4-36 RC include:

* Cpuscaling test changes/fixes to address issues with the aperfmerf method.

* Cpuscaling now loads the msr and cpuid modules on RHEL5 x86.


The v7-1.4-36 package has been smoke 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 v7-1.4-30 and v7-1.4-36:

   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 ...

Known Issues list for v7-1.4-36:

   524983 v7 Network server blocked from working by SELinux
   568458 v7 on RHEL5 RT kernel fails with a backtrace when HAL ...
   701939 ia64 fv_storage guest fail
   732922 Traceback when cpuscaling is run on XEN
   713121 v7 1.3 R46 Reboot test fails on RHEL5.6 Xen


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