From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Moore, Robert" Subject: RE: [patch 0/5] iASL patches in Debian Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 12:27:20 -0700 Message-ID: <4911F71203A09E4D9981D27F9D830858A10EFE10@orsmsx503.amr.corp.intel.com> References: <20100704044332.573836359@linux.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Return-path: Received: from mga03.intel.com ([143.182.124.21]:51677 "EHLO mga03.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754147Ab0GGT1X convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jul 2010 15:27:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100704044332.573836359@linux.it> Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: "malattia@linux.it" Cc: Len Brown , "linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" If you'd like to get ambitious, run the ASLTS suite on the big-endian machines. >-----Original Message----- >From: malattia@linux.it [mailto:malattia@linux.it] >Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2010 9:44 PM >To: Moore, Robert >Cc: Len Brown; linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org >Subject: [patch 0/5] iASL patches in Debian > >Hi Robert, > >Here is a series of patches that I've been carrying in the iasl Debian >package for some time. They are all refreshed and reworked to apply >cleanly on top of acpica-unix-20100528. >The series consists a couple of trivial patches to fix building on the >FreeBSD and Hurd kernel flavours of Debian and some larger ones to enable >compiling ASL on big endian architectures. >It would be great if you could apply the patches to your source tree and >ship new release with this work included. >Let me know if you want me to run more tests or change something in the >patches. > >I tested building tests/misc/grammar.asl (plus a number or other DSDTs I >have here) with the whole set applied and the results were identical on >BE and LE machines as well as being identical to what a clean iasl >produces on x86[1]. >You can see build logs for all the architectures supported here: >https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=acpica-unix > >Thanks > >[1]: checked with (1) an hex dump of the AML file, (2) the C file >generated with -tc and (3) by decompiling the AML to DSL on x86 and >comparing the results. >As a side note pristine iasl on x86 sefaults when building >test/misc/grammar.asl, with these patches applied it doesn't. > >-- >mattia