Re: [Devel] ACPICA version 20110922 released

Re: [Devel] ACPICA version 20110922 released

[Moore, Robert]

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Time. Acpi5 is consuming us mostly, but we are getting to things slowly.


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Thomas Renninger [mailto:trenn(a)suse.de]
>Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 4:21 PM
>To: devel(a)acpica.org
>Cc: Moore, Robert
>Subject: Re: [Devel] ACPICA version 20110922 released
>
>On Thursday 22 September 2011 18:17:49 Moore, Robert wrote:
>> 22 September 2011. Summary of changes for version 20110922:
>...
>No table overriding via physical address interface?
>I've added this to our latest kernel sources now, but it would
>be great see this mainline, perfectly 3.2...
>Is there a specific problem or is it just the typical lack of time?
>
>Thanks,
>
>   Thomas

Re: [Devel] ACPICA version 20110922 released

[Thomas Renninger]

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On Thursday 22 September 2011 18:17:49 Moore, Robert wrote:
> 22 September 2011. Summary of changes for version 20110922:
...
No table overriding via physical address interface?
I've added this to our latest kernel sources now, but it would
be great see this mainline, perfectly 3.2...
Is there a specific problem or is it just the typical lack of time?

Thanks,

   Thomas

[Devel] ACPICA version 20110922 released

[Moore, Robert]

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22 September 2011. Summary of changes for version 20110922:

This release is available at www.acpica.org/downloads

0) ACPI 5.0 News:

Support for ACPI 5.0 in ACPICA has been underway for several months and will be released at the same time that ACPI 5.0 is officially released.

The ACPI 5.0 specification is on track for release in the next few months.
 
1) ACPICA Core Subsystem:

Fixed a problem where the maximum sleep time for the Sleep() operator was intended to be limited to two seconds, but was inadvertently limited to 20 seconds instead.

Linux and Unix makefiles: Added header file dependencies to ensure correct generation of ACPICA core code and utilities. Also simplified the makefiles considerably through the use of the vpath variable to specify search paths. ACPICA BZ 924.

2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and Tools:

iASL: Implemented support to check the access length for all fields created to access named Resource Descriptor fields. For example, if a resource field is defined to be two bits, a warning is issued if a CreateXxxxField() is used with an incorrect bit length. This is implemented for all current resource descriptor names. ACPICA BZ 930.
  
Disassembler: Fixed a byte ordering problem with the output of 24-bit and 56-bit integers.

iASL: Fixed a couple of issues associated with variable-length package objects. 1) properly handle constants like One, Ones, Zero -- do not make a VAR_PACKAGE when these are used as a package length. 2) Allow the VAR_PACKAGE opcode (in addition to PACKAGE) when validating object types for predefined names.

iASL: Emit statistics for all output files (instead of just the ASL input and AML output). Includes listings, hex files, etc.

iASL: Added -G option to the table compiler to allow the compilation of custom ACPI tables. The only part of a table that is required is the standard 36-byte ACPI header.

AcpiXtract: Ported to the standard ACPICA environment (with ACPICA headers), which also adds correct 64-bit support. Also, now all output filenames are completely lower case.

AcpiExec: Ignore any non-AML tables (tables other than DSDT or SSDT) when loading table files. A warning is issued for any such tables. The only exception is an FADT. This also fixes a possible fault when attempting to load non-AML tables. ACPICA BZ 932.

AcpiHelp: Added the AccessAs and Offset operators. Fixed a problem where a missing table terminator could cause a fault when using the -p option.

AcpiSrc: Fixed a possible divide-by-zero fault when generating file statistics.

3) Example Code and Data Size

These are the sizes for the OS-independent acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 9.0 32-bit compiler. The debug version of the code includes the debug output trace mechanism and has a much larger code and data size.

  Previous Release (VC 9.0):
    Non-Debug Version:  90.2K Code, 23.9K Data, 114.1K Total
    Debug Version:     165.6K Code, 68.4K Data, 234.0K Total
  Current Release (VC 9.0):
    Non-Debug Version:  90.2K Code, 23.9K Data, 114.1K Total
    Debug Version:     165.6K Code, 68.4K Data, 234.0K Total