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

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

On Sun, 2010-07-04 at 12:43 +0800, malattia@linux.it wrote:
> 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

Hi,

Thanks for the patches.

(linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org is for linux-specific acpi dicussion. Better
to post these patches to ACPICA maillist devel@acpica.org)

I read these patches but not clear what the problem they solved.
Could you add info in the log of each patch?

Thanks,
Lin Ming