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

["malattia@linux.it" <malattia@linux.it>]

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?

Just one note that probably was not clear from my initial email: the
patches I sent to support BE architectures are only for compiling asl
code.
I'd like to add support for decompiling too eventually.

Thanks!

> >-----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
-- 
mattia
:wq!