Re: [patch 0/5] iASL patches in Debian

[Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>]

On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 21:49 +0800, malattia@linux.it wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 08:49:24AM +0800, Lin Ming wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 06:07 +0800, malattia@linux.it wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 12:27:20PM -0700, Moore, Robert wrote:
> > > > If you'd like to get ambitious, run the ASLTS suite on the big-endian machines.
> > > 
> > > I'll give it a go :)
> > > Is the one found in the meego git repository what I should try?
> > 
> > Or acpica git repository (git://git.moblin.org/acpica)
> > 
> > acpica/tests/aslts
> 
> For now I only ran "Do 0 aslts" and the results are not too bad. I cleaned
> up the build logs a bit and here's the diff between sparc64 and x86_64:

Good. Thanks!

> 
> --- /proc/self/fd/11	2010-07-08 22:33:25.614802828 +0900
> +++ /proc/self/fd/13	2010-07-08 22:33:25.614802828 +0900
> @@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
> -Linux smetana 2.6.26-2-sparc64-smp #1 SMP Mon Jun 21 16:31:11 UTC 2010 sparc64 GNU/Linux
> +Linux caligola 2.6.34 #37 SMP PREEMPT Sat May 29 11:36:03 JST 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>  
>  Make-install all the provided test cases
> +install -d -m 775 ../../../../../../tmp/aml/20100528/nopt/32
> +install -d -m 775 ../../../../../../tmp/aml/20100528/nopt/64
> +install -d -m 775 ../../../../../../tmp/aml/20100528/opt/32
> +install -d -m 775 ../../../../../../tmp/aml/20100528/opt/64
>  ASL Input:  MAIN.asl - 78 lines, 1734433 bytes, 21705 keywords
>  AML Output: bdemo.aml - 282587 bytes, 4188 named objects, 17517 executable opcodes
>  
> @@ -90,11 +94,11 @@
>  
>  Compilation complete. 0 Errors, 83 Warnings, 18 Remarks, 0 Optimizations
>  ASL Input:  MAIN.asl - 62 lines, 962044 bytes, 20265 keywords
> -AML Output: oconst.aml - 255557 bytes, 862 named objects, 19403 executable opcodes
> +AML Output: oconst.aml - 255575 bytes, 862 named objects, 19403 executable opcodes

Why do the aml files have different size?
Is it caused by big/small endian?

Lin Ming

>  
>  Compilation complete. 0 Errors, 1852 Warnings, 18 Remarks, 7775 Optimizations
>  ASL Input:  MAIN.asl - 62 lines, 962044 bytes, 20265 keywords
> -AML Output: oconst.aml - 261267 bytes, 862 named objects, 19403 executable opcodes
> +AML Output: oconst.aml - 261272 bytes, 862 named objects, 19403 executable opcodes
>  
>  Compilation complete. 0 Errors, 83 Warnings, 18 Remarks, 7908 Optimizations
>  ASL Input:  MAIN.asl - 66 lines, 256106 bytes, 3194 keywords
> @@ -666,11 +670,11 @@
>  
>  Compilation complete. 0 Errors, 127 Warnings, 10 Remarks, 0 Optimizations
>  ASL Input:  MAIN.asl - 71 lines, 229960 bytes, 4885 keywords
> -AML Output: dynobj.aml - 57915 bytes, 599 named objects, 4286 executable opcodes
> +AML Output: dynobj.aml - 57916 bytes, 599 named objects, 4286 executable opcodes
>  
>  Compilation complete. 0 Errors, 129 Warnings, 10 Remarks, 2101 Optimizations
>  ASL Input:  MAIN.asl - 71 lines, 229960 bytes, 4885 keywords
> -AML Output: dynobj.aml - 57919 bytes, 599 named objects, 4286 executable opcodes
> +AML Output: dynobj.aml - 57920 bytes, 599 named objects, 4286 executable opcodes
>  
>  Compilation complete. 0 Errors, 127 Warnings, 10 Remarks, 2101 Optimizations
>  ASL Input:  MAIN.asl - 60 lines, 94913 bytes, 1410 keywords
> 
> Looks like I have some more work to do ;)