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[Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Version 0.14.1 was build a short while ago and is now ready to download.
It includes a couple of changes:

1. mtrr test - this now now correctly checks the pre-fetchable status
from the output of lspci.  Before now MTRR tests were getting a false
positive and failing on a lot of machines. 

2. mtrr test - now checks the that BIOS is configuring the VGA memory
region MTRR.  We have found that a lot of BIOSes don't configure a MTRR
on this region, which can slow down the way grub2 renders video and
hence slows down a boot by a large fraction of a second (every second
counts!)  This is logged as low level failure, and it recommends that
the MTRR is configured by the BIOS.

3. Add in some short switches to common options - mainly because I was
wearing my fingers out typing the long versions.  fwts -h shows these in
the help info.

That's about it.

Colin