Re: [Devel] ACPICA version 20150818 released

[Jung-uk Kim <jkim at FreeBSD.org>]

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On 08/18/2015 16:27, Moore, Robert wrote:
> 18 August 2015. Summary of changes for version 20150818:
> 
> This release is available at https://acpica.org/downloads
> 
> 1) ACPICA kernel-resident subsystem:
> 
> Fix a regression for AcpiGetTableByIndex interface causing it to
> fail. Lv Zheng. ACPICA BZ 1186.
> 
> Completed development to ensure that the ACPICA Disassembler and
> Debugger are fully standalone components of ACPICA. Removed
> cross-component dependences. Lv Zheng.
> 
> The max-number-of-AML-loops is now runtime configurable (previously
> was compile-time only). This is essentially a loop timeout to
> force-abort infinite AML loops. ACPCIA BZ 1192.
> 
> Debugger: Cleanup output to dump ACPI names and namepaths without
> any trailing underscores. Lv Zheng. ACPICA BZ 1135.
> 
> Removed unnecessary conditional compilations across the Debugger
> and Disassembler components where entire modules could be left
> uncompiled.
> 
> The aapits test is deprecated and has been removed from the ACPICA
> git tree. The test has never been completed and has not been
> maintained, thus becoming rather useless. ACPICA BZ 1015, 794.
> 
> A batch of small changes to close bugzilla and other reports: -
> Remove duplicate code for _PLD processing. ACPICA BZ 1176. -
> Correctly cleanup after a ACPI table load failure. ACPICA BZ 1185. 
> - iASL: Support POSIX yacc again in makefile. Jung-uk Kim. - ACPI
> table support: general cleanup and simplification. Lv Zheng, Bob
> Moore. - ACPI table support: fix for a buffer read overrun in
> AcpiTbFindTable. ACPICA BZ 1184. - Enhance parameter validation for
> DataTableRegion and LoadTable ASL/AML operators. - Debugger: Split
> debugger initialization/termination interfaces. Lv Zheng. -
> AcpiExec: Emit OemTableId for SSDTs during the load phase for table
> identification. - AcpiExec: Add debug message during _REG method
> phase during table load/init. - AcpiNames: Fix a regression where
> some output was missing and no longer emitted. - Debugger: General
> cleanup and simplification. Lv Zheng. - Disassembler: Cleanup use
> of several global option variables. Lv Zheng.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 101.3K Code, 27.7K Data, 129.0K
> Total Debug Version:     198.6K Code, 80.9K Data, 279.5K Total 
> Previous Release: Non-Debug Version: 100.9K Code, 24.5K Data,
> 125.4K Total Debug Version:     197.8K Code, 81.5K Data, 279.3K
> Total
> 
> 
> 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and Tools:
> 
> AcpiExec: Fixed a problem where any more than 32 ACPI tables in the
> XSDT were not handled properly and caused load errors. Now,
> properly invoke and use the ACPICA auto-reallocate mechanism for
> ACPI table data structures. ACPICA BZ 1188
> 
> AcpiNames: Add command-line wildcard support for ACPI table files.
> ACPICA BZ 1190.
> 
> AcpiExec and AcpiNames: Add -l option to load ACPI tables only. For
> AcpiExec, this means that no control methods (like _REG/_INI/_STA)
> are executed during initialization. ACPICA BZ 1187, 1189.
> 
> iASL/Disassembler: Implemented a prototype "listing" mode that
> emits AML that corresponds to each disassembled ASL statement, to
> simplify debugging. ACPICA BZ 1191.
> 
> Debugger: Add option to the "objects" command to display a summary
> of the current namespace objects (Object type and count). This is
> displayed if the command is entered with no arguments.
> 
> AcpiNames: Add -x option to specify debug level, similar to
> AcpiExec.

Unfortunately, AcpiNames does not build because
source/tools/acpinames/acpinames.h is wrongly included as AcpiNames.h
in the release tarballs.

Jung-uk Kim
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