Re: Toshiba Satellite 1905S303 DSDT table

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

On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Ducrot Bruno wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 09:14:48PM -0200, Erico M Mendonca wrote:
> > I'm currently trying to debug the DSDT table of this aforementioned
> > machine, and managed to clear all the errors, except for this one:
> > =================
> > Intel ACPI Component Architecture
> > ASL Optimizing Compiler / AML Disassembler version 20030918 [Sep 18 2003]
> > Copyright (C) 2000 - 2003 Intel Corporation
> > Supports ACPI Specification Revision 2.0b
> >
> > s303.asl   468:                 If(\_OSI) {
> > Error    1028 -      Too few arguments ^  (\_OSI requires 1)
> >
> > s303.asl   469:                     "Windows 2001"
> > Error    1037 -                                  ^ parse error,
> > unexpected PARSEOP_STRING_LITERAL
> >
> > ASL Input:  s303.asl - 2871 lines, 112889 bytes, 2084 keywords
> > Compilation complete. 2 Errors, 0 Warnings, 0 Remarks, 538 Optimizations
> > ==============
> >
> > I searched around the web and found only one message stating that
> > acpidump didn't support the _OSI method yet (late 2002). Did this ever
> > got solved?
>
> I remember that acpidmp is no more supported, in favor to iasl.
> acpidmp is now, under F-BSD, a wrapper for iasl, with some little
> goodies, like dumping more infos.  Therefore, I doubt this will
> be corrected.
>
> If you want more info, you should search FreeBSD mailing list (I
> don't remember the correct one, should be -current IIRC).

I'm the FreeBSD maintainer.  acpidump(8) now just dumps the DSDT to a file
and prints the fixed tables.  It then calls iasl -d to disassemble the
DSDT.  I'm planning to add support for SSDT as well soon.  If anyone from
Linux is looking to port the new acpidump(8), let me know.

-Nate


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