Re: DSDT table help

[Nate Lawson <nate-Y6VGUYTwhu0@public.gmane.org>]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Ducrot Bruno wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:10:15PM +0200, Martin List-Petersen wrote:
> > Hi,
> > i would like to have some help with some DSDT table errors, if anybody
> > cares:
> >
> > --------------------------------
> > This is the first machine:
> > ASL Optimizing Compiler / AML Disassembler version 20030522 [May 23
> > 2003]
> > Copyright (C) 2000 - 2003 Intel Corporation
> > Supports ACPI Specification Revision 2.0b
> >
> > dsdt.asl   379:             If(\_OSI) {
> > Error    1028 -  Too few arguments ^  (\_OSI requires 1)
> >
> > dsdt.asl   380:                 "Windows 2001"
> > Error    1037 -                              ^ parse error, unexpected
> > PARSEOP_STRING_LITERAL
>
> known issue with acpidump from FreeBSD (and all backport to others OS).
> I don't think the maintainer of this tool will update it.  Use iasl -d instead.

This is wrong.  acpidump(8) on FreeBSD uses iasl(8) as the backend.
acpidump does the physmem table accesses and iasl does the parsing of the
DSDT.  I maintain it and commit updates to it regularly.

For an example of our output, see:
  http://root.org/~nate/acpi/ibm-acpidump.asl.gz

-Nate


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