Re: [Devel] Update to acpica (20190405 broke VirtualBox, patch avail)

[Thomas Renninger <trenn at suse.de>]

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Hi Larry,

+ acpica list
+ Erik, author of the patch

while there is a tested patch, there has not been a pull request or a mail
patch submission on the acpcia mailing list to get the fix mainline.

I like to wait until the patch is submitted and reviewed, best accepted.

Once this has happened, I can grab it.
Or better, if the patch is unmodified, you may want to create a submit
request via the Open SUSE Build Servcie (OBS) with a tiny changelog mentioning
the patch and I can simply accept it.

Thanks Larry for the bug identifying, testing and all the details!

     Thomas

Background:


On Monday, April 22, 2019 11:03:09 PM CEST Larry Finger wrote:
> Thomas,
> 
> I am writing to you as the maintainer of the acpica package.
> 
> The recent update to acpica-20190405 broke iASL for the VirtualBox package.
> With it, Windows 7 VM's fail with a Blue Screen complaining about the BIOS.
> As far as I know, no other OS fails. The bug was posted as bsc#1132941,
> which has been assigned to me.
> 
> There is a discussion of this bug at
> https://github.com/acpica/acpica/issues/462, where a patch was posted. I
> checked out the package at home:lwfinger:branches:openSUSE:Factory/acpica,
> added the patch, and built the package locally using osc. I then applied
> that package to a rebuild of VB. Once I did that, then Windows 7 VM's work
> again.
> 
> I have committed my changes to my copy of acpica. How do you want to proceed
> from here? Should I send an MR on that project? Please advise.
> 
> Larry