Intel Announces a BIOS Implementation Test Suite

[saaya]

sweet... hope it contains a memory, cpu and gpu benchmark/stability test!

[squawker]

Very interesting, results for RIIIE, bios1102:

1. MSR Consistency Test Suite
Summary: 8177 passed, 0 failed

2. Power Management Test Suite:
C1 Auto Demotion Enable: FAIL
C3 Auto Demotion Enable: FAIL
IO MWAIT Redirection Enable: FAIL
C1E Enable:FAIL
Summary: 7 passed, 4 failed

3. SMRR Test Suite:
SMRR type must be Write-Back (best performance): FAIL
Summary: 5 passed, 1 failed

4. Detect SMI frequency and latency
Summary of impact: observed maximum latency = 5314 us
Risk of OS timeouts exists with this observed latency (ideal < 150 us)

5. C-state exploration:
*MWAIT C-States
MWAIT C1 is supported
MWAIT C1E is supported
MWAIT *C2 is supported
MWAIT *C3 is supported
MWAIT *C4 is not supported
MWAIT *C5 is not supported
MWAIT *C6 is not supported

OBS: In bios C1E and C-State are Disabled.