[Devel] [patch 0/5] iASL patches in Debian

[malattia at linux.it]

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Hello again (this time on the correct mailing list)!
Please Cc me on replies as I'm not subscribed to this list.

Here's a re-send of the patches incorrectly sent to linux-acpi@ and with
(hopefully better descriptions).

I've been carrying these patches 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                                                                                

[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.                                                                               

Thanks
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mattia