[DB] BIOS - ACPI - data collecting

[Adarion]

FWTS
*whistles* Awesome stuff that. I just dd'ed the image to an empty CF disk from my camera and booted from my card reader.

all tests on my Asus M4A78-E:
Summary: 59 passed, 29 failed, 0 warnings, 2 aborted.
Some of the FAILs receive a category, low, med, high.

the reassemly/compil. of DSDT showed the usual nearly 200 errors, most of them
Object does not exist ^ (LNK_) (with _ being a letter), probably a syntax messup somewhere, just lots of "xy does not exist", had the same problem when I dumped them manually and tried to reassemle them. Wish I had coding skills and could just fix stuff more easily.

One of the "aborted" tests was
"Cannot read microcode file /usr/share/misc/intel-microcode.dat"
Ha. Ha. Why does it expect to load intel microcode on an AMD machine?
Also the message reads like they had forgotten to include firmware blobs into the disk image file.

It also produced an interrupt storm on IRQ 19, thus disabling 19 and noting that as critical error, but my Gentoo kernel dmesg doesn't say anything about diabled IRQ 19. *shrugs*

And "incorrect checksum" as also seen on my manual dumps for the tables. Humm. I don't know much about it but I don't like it. Wrong checksum sounds always nasty.




How to get this test suite working hopefully quickly

wget  http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/testing/maverick-desktop-i386-fwts.img
dd if=maverick-desktop-i386-fwts.img of=/dev/sd_

(replace _ with your letter for the USB media, and double check before you accidentally overwrite your / )
then fdisk /dev/sd_ and "a" 'make the sd_1 bootable), reboot and select the card reader to boot from.
wait some time until it finishes loading and gives you a VGA text menu
select tests, run them, wait, result will automatically be saved to the media (./fwts/today'sdate/somenumber/results.log), shutdown.
Reboot from HDD, go to Phoronix forums and post results.

edit:
I am currently taking data from my VIA C7, the FWTS offers also an xterm implementation (looks like the Gnome one) and other niceness. But apparently there is no acpidump installed. I just used the existing network connection from the box to apt-get install acpidump and then I could dump tables and acpixtract them. So maybe you need to do this for the full results. (I didn't find the tables and compilers in the results log or I was to quick an just missed that part.) I don't know if it is actually written to the USB media for later use, it writes a boot part and an ISO and the ISO is then being mounted as "cdrom" and loaded, but maybe it is writeable and the acpidump will stay for later use on offline machines. Otherwise it is probably possible to copy the binary to a free location on the USB media (I even have a whole partition added to it to save any data or take data with me).

[snuwoods]

Ms-7610 (p41t-c33) from MSI

acpixtract -l acpi.dump:

Signature Length  OemId     OemTableId   OemRevision CompilerId CompilerRevision

    DSDT   25419  "A7610 "  "A7610100"    00000100    "INTL"     20051117
    FACS      64
    FACP     132  "7610MS"  "A7610100"    20110809    "MSFT"     00000097
    APIC     108  "7610MS"  "A7610100"    20110809    "MSFT"     00000097
    MCFG      60  "7610MS"  "OEMMCFG "    20110809    "MSFT"     00000097
    OEMB     114  "7610MS"  "A7610100"    20110809    "MSFT"     00000097
    HPET      56  "7610MS"  "OEMHPET "    20110809    "MSFT"     00000097
    GSCI    8228  "7610MS"  "GMCHSCI "    20110809    "MSFT"     00000097
    SSDT    2684  "DpgPmm"  "CpuPm   "    00000012    "INTL"     20051117
    RSDT      64  "7610MS"  "A7610100"    20110809    "MSFT"     00000097
    RSDP          "ACPIAM"

Found 11 ACPI tables [20060324]

dmidecode: http://pastebin.com/U2MhXYrV

[Adarion]

Interesting. I'm fetching the image now. As soon as I find a free media I'll check it. Maybe it works better on a few machines where LFK v3 crashed during bootup.

Though you can use the acpidump from the pmtools bundle on every installed Linux and lshw or dmidecode for the board and bios description. Of course if you don't have a Linux installation on the box you need something to boot from. The decompilation and recompilation gives varying results. On my box here I got more than 200 errors probably due to a syntax error in the decompiled version. Grhm. Need coding skills.

[cking]

fwts documentation

There is also documentation for fwts here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Reference/fwts

[osmotr]

About Test Suite

LinuxFirmware kit outdated It has old kernel/tools and not maintained anymore I guess it's requires live boot not standalone testing on a host system

anway I found a new firmware test kit and it's standalone application for now maintained from via ubuntu kernel engineer
and also it's supports UEFI firmware
website : http://smackerelofopinion.blogspot.c...pi-health.html
Launchpad : https://launchpad.net/~firmware-testing-team
ArchLinux AUR : http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39604
installing on ubuntu 11.10 via "sudo apt-get install fwts" that's all

I did a quick test via fwts(firmware test suite) with Acer Aspire 5315 host system is Ubuntu 11.10 kernel 3.0.0-13.21-generic 3.0.6
results are : 327 passed, 47 failed, 1 warnings, 0 aborted, 79 skipped, 2 info only.

I think it's better than other kit database should recreate via this kit

[rechapit]

Asus N61JQ

acpixtract+ dmidecode +lshw(txt)
firmware development kit results(zip)

hope these prove useful

[ryszardzonk]

All information for Asus P5B Deluxe available here

results.txt contains run from Linux-ready Firmware Kit while archive.zip provides all other infomation gathered including dsdt table dumps

I included several more results including 2 laptops and few boards along with the most recent kernel patches from Thomas Renninger (Suse) for overriding DSDT and SSDT tables in bios which should really help in debuging issues

All available here

http://bigvo.dyndns.org/acpi/

A bit info about patches themselves in Thomas own words

"This is a totally different approach, but much more flexible and earlier.
It provides the possibility to override any ACPI table (including for
example
static tables like FADT). You can override up to 10 tables, also
individual
SSDTs. Iirc it looks for the table signature on SSDTs and only overrides
the matching ones. Before one had to glue DSDT and SSDTs together, provide
acpi_no_auto_dsdt boot param -> it was really ugly up to impossible
if you wanted to try to override SSDT tables."

[Soul_keeper]

Gigabyte G41M-ES2L

acpixtract -l acpidump.out

Intel ACPI Component Architecture
ACPI Binary Table Extraction Utility version 20110922-64 [Nov 5 2011]
Copyright (c) 2000 - 2011 Intel Corporation


Signature Length Revision OemId OemTableId OemRevision CompilerId CompilerRevision

DSDT 17316 01 "GBT " "GBTUACPI" 00001000 "MSFT" 0100000C
FACS 64
FACP 116 01 "GBT " "GBTUACPI" 42302E31 "GBTU" 01010101
HPET 56 01 "GBT " "GBTUACPI" 42302E31 "GBTU" 00000098
MCFG 60 01 "GBT " "GBTUACPI" 42302E31 "GBTU" 01010101
TAMG 25618 01 "GBT " "GBT B0" 5455312E "BG " 00020101
APIC 132 01 "GBT " "GBTUACPI" 42302E31 "GBTU" 01010101
RSDT 56 01 "GBT " "GBTUACPI" 42302E31 "GBTU" 01010101
RSDP "GBT "

Found 9 ACPI tables

dmidecode|more
# dmidecode 2.9
SMBIOS 2.4 present.
38 structures occupying 1177 bytes.
Table at 0x000F0100.

Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes
BIOS Information
Vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
Version: F9
Release Date: 06/21/2010
Address: 0xE0000
Runtime Size: 128 kB
ROM Size: 1024 kB
...
Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Product Name: G41M-ES2L
Version:
Serial Number:
UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-6CF04946829A
Wake-up Type: Power Switch
SKU Number:
Family:

Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 8 bytes
Base Board Information
Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Product Name: G41M-ES2L
Version:
Serial Number:

Handle 0x0003, DMI type 3, 17 bytes
Chassis Information
Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Type: Desktop
Lock: Not Present
Version:
Serial Number:
Asset Tag:
Boot-up State: Unknown
Power Supply State: Unknown
Thermal State: Unknown
Security Status: Unknown
OEM Information: 0x00000000

Handle 0x0004, DMI type 4, 35 bytes
Processor Information
Socket Designation: Socket 775

[Adarion]

Asus M2A-VM
This is one of the coreboot compatible boards, running an AMD LE-1620.

Signature Length Revision  OemId     OemTableId   OemRevision CompilerId CompilerRevision

    DSDT   20826     01    "ATI   "  "ASUSACPI"    00001000    "MSFT"     03000000
    FACS      64
    FACP     244     03    "ATI   "  "ASUSACPI"    42302E31    "AWRD"     00000000
    SSDT     310     01    "PTLTD "  "POWERNOW"    00000001    " LTP"     00000001
    HPET      56     01    "ATI   "  "ASUSACPI"    42302E31    "AWRD"     00000098
    MCFG      60     01    "ATI   "  "ASUSACPI"    42302E31    "AWRD"     00000000
    APIC     132     01    "ATI   "  "ASUSACPI"    42302E31    "AWRD"     00000000
    XSDT      76     01    "ATI   "  "ASUSACPI"    42302E31    "AWRD"     00000000
    RSDP                   "ATI   "

Found 9 ACPI tables [20100107]

DMI information:
# dmidecode 2.7
SMBIOS 2.4 present.
58 structures occupying 1675 bytes.
Table at 0x000F0000.

Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes.
BIOS Information
	Vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
	Version: ASUS M2A-VM ACPI BIOS Revision 5001
	Release Date: 02/04/2010
	Address: 0xE0000
	Runtime Size: 128 kB
	ROM Size: 1024 kB
	Characteristics:
		ISA is supported
		PCI is supported
		PNP is supported
		APM is supported
		BIOS is upgradeable
		BIOS shadowing is allowed
		Boot from CD is supported
		Selectable boot is supported
		BIOS ROM is socketed
		EDD is supported
		5.25"/360 KB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
		5.25"/1.2 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
		3.5"/720 KB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
		3.5"/2.88 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
		Print screen service is supported (int 5h)
		8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h)
		Serial services are supported (int 14h)
		Printer services are supported (int 17h)
		CGA/mono video services are supported (int 10h)
		ACPI is supported
		USB legacy is supported
		AGP is supported
		LS-120 boot is supported
		ATAPI Zip drive boot is supported
		BIOS boot specification is supported
		Targeted content distribution is supported

Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 27 bytes.
System Information
	Manufacturer: System manufacturer
	Product Name: System Product Name
	Version: System Version
	Serial Number: System Serial Number
		Wake-up Type: Power Switch
	SKU Number:  
	Family:  

Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 8 bytes.
Base Board Information
	Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
	Product Name: M2A-VM
	Version: 1.XX    
	Serial Number: 123456789000

LFK v3 says:
KERNEL VERSION: Linux testmachine 2.6.22.9 #1 SMP Mon Oct 1 15:17:15 PDT 2007 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
SUMMARY: 3 Fails, 3 Warns, 14 Pass, 20 Total

[Adarion]

I hope I won't already publish duplicates here.
So I visited a friend in .nl and had of course nothing better to do than chasing the LFK over his and his girlfriend's laptop.
Sadly I couldn't test their Lenovo ThinkPad since I had no bootable USB stick with me and there was no (external) opt. drive.

Dell XPS M1530

Signature Length Revision  OemId     OemTableId   OemRevision CompilerId CompilerRevision

    DSDT   19394     02    "INT430"  "SYSFexxx"    00001001    "INTL"     20050624
    FACS      64
    FACP     244     04    "DELL  "  "M08     "    27D80B13    "ASL "     00000061
    HPET      56     01    "DELL  "  "M08     "    00000001    "ASL "     00000061
    APIC     104     01    "DELL  "  "M08     "    27D80B13    "ASL "     00000047
    MCFG      62     10    "DELL  "  "M08     "    27D80B13    "ASL "     00000061
    SLIC     374     01    "DELL  "  "M08     "    27D80B13    "ASL "     00000061
    OSFR      44     01    "DELL  "  "M08     "    27D80B13    "ASL "     00000061
    BOOT      40     01    "DELL  "  "M08     "    27D80B13    "ASL "     00000061
    SSDT    1228     01    "PmRef "  "CpuPm   "    00003000    "INTL"     20050624
    XSDT     100     01    "DELL  "  "M08     "    27D80B13    "ASL "     00000061
    RSDP                   "DELL  "

Found 12 ACPI tables [20100107]

DMI information:
# dmidecode 2.7
SMBIOS 2.4 present.

Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes.
BIOS Information
	Vendor: Dell Inc.
	Version: A12
	Release Date: 11/19/2008
	Address: 0xF0000
	Runtime Size: 64 kB
	ROM Size: 2048 kB
	Characteristics:
		ISA is supported
		PCI is supported
		PC Card (PCMCIA) is supported
		PNP is supported
		BIOS is upgradeable
		BIOS shadowing is allowed
		Boot from CD is supported
		Selectable boot is supported
		3.5"/720 KB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
		Print screen service is supported (int 5h)
		8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h)
		Serial services are supported (int 14h)
		Printer services are supported (int 17h)
		CGA/mono video services are supported (int 10h)
		ACPI is supported
		USB legacy is supported
		AGP is supported
		Smart battery is supported
		BIOS boot specification is supported
		Function key-initiated network boot is supported
		Targeted content distribution is supported
	BIOS Revision: 1.2
	Firmware Revision: 1.2

Handle 0x0100, DMI type 1, 27 bytes.
System Information
	Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
	Product Name: XPS M1530
	Version: Not Specified
	Wake-up Type: Power Switch
	SKU Number: Not Specified
	Family:

LFK:
KERNEL VERSION: Linux testmachine 2.6.22.9 #1 SMP Mon Oct 1 15:17:15 PDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
SUMMARY: 6 Fails, 3 Warns, 11 Pass, 20 Total

-------------------------------

Asus K52JT (the sticker on the backside was less specific iirc)

Signature Length Revision  OemId     OemTableId   OemRevision CompilerId CompilerRevision

    DSDT   71542     01    "_ASUS_"  "Notebook"    00000000    "INTL"     20051117
    FACS      64
    FACP     244     04    "_ASUS_"  "Notebook"    06222004    "MSFT"     00010013
    APIC     140     02    "_ASUS_"  "Notebook"    06222004    "MSFT"     00010013
    DBGP      52     01    "_ASUS_"  "Notebook"    06222004    "MSFT"     00010013
    ECDT     193     01    "_ASUS_"  "Notebook"    06222004    "AMI."     00000003
    SLIC     374     01    "_ASUS_"  "Notebook"    06222004    "ASUS"     00000001
    MCFG      60     01    "_ASUS_"  "Notebook"    06222004    "MSFT"     00000097
    HPET      56     01    "_ASUS_"  "Notebook"    06222004    "AMI."     00000003
    SSDT    2545     01    "PmRef "  "CpuPm   "    00003000    "INTL"     20051117
    DMAR     104     01    "INTEL "  "CP_FIELD"    00000001    "INTL"     00000001
    XSDT     108     01    "_ASUS_"  "Notebook"    06222004    "MSFT"     00010013
    RSDP                   "_ASUS_"

Found 13 ACPI tables [20100107]

DMI information:
# dmidecode 2.7
SMBIOS 2.6 present.
80 structures occupying 2763 bytes.
Table at 0x000EC340.

Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes.
BIOS Information
	Vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
	Version: K52JT.204
	Release Date: 12/01/2010
	Address: 0xF0000
	Runtime Size: 64 kB
	ROM Size: 2048 kB
	Characteristics:
		PCI is supported
		BIOS is upgradeable
		BIOS shadowing is allowed
		Boot from CD is supported
		Selectable boot is supported
		EDD is supported
		5.25"/1.2 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
		3.5"/720 KB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
		3.5"/2.88 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
		Print screen service is supported (int 5h)
		8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h)
		Serial services are supported (int 14h)
		Printer services are supported (int 17h)
		ACPI is supported
		USB legacy is supported
		Smart battery is supported
		BIOS boot specification is supported
		Targeted content distribution is supported
	BIOS Revision: 4.6

Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 15 bytes.
Base Board Information
	Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.        
	Product Name: K52JT
	Version: 1.0       
		Features:
		Board is a hosting board
		Board is replaceable
	Location In Chassis: MIDDLE              
	Chassis Handle: 0x0003
	Type: Motherboard
	Contained Object Handles: 0

KERNEL VERSION: Linux testmachine 2.6.22.9 #1 SMP Mon Oct 1 15:17:15 PDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
SUMMARY: 6 Fails, 3 Warns, 10 Pass, 19 Total


More to follow maybe coming week.
Cheers!