RE: acpi-problem with samsung x10 1700

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

FreeBSD does have a workaround for this.  We use an implicit return value:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/contrib/dev/acpica/psparse.c.diff?r1=1.20&r2=1.21&f=h

-Nate

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Brown, Len wrote:
> AML is like C -- if there is no return statement from a routine (method)
> then nothing gets returned.
>
> Unfortunately the microsoft implementation of the AML interpreter
> behaves as if there is a return statement, and so bugs in AML get
> through windows validation.
>
> For this to work on the ACPICA AML interpreter, you need to insert the
> missing return statements in the AML -- we don't have a workaround for
> this type of BIOS bug.
>
> -Len
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
> > [mailto:acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of D. S.
> > Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 10:10 AM
> > To: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
> > Subject: [ACPI] acpi-problem with samsung x10 1700
> >
> >
> > hi folks,
> > maybe you folks could help me out.
> > i fixed the dsdt.aml so far that iasl compiles without an error.
> > so far so good.
> >
> > now dmesg gives me the following:
> >
> > acpi-1121: error:method execution failed [\SB_.ADP1._STA] (Node
> > c1613920), AE_AML_NO_RETURN_VALUE
> > acpi-1121: error:method execution failed [\SB_.BAT1._STA] (Node
> > c1613a20), AE_AML_NO_RETURN_VALUE
> >
> > this means, if i'm correct, that the stats for battery and ac-adapter
> > can't be read.
> > i am not sure where to correct this and how.
> >
> > so you maybe need some info on the machine/dist.
> > samsung x10 xtc1700
> > bios 06ye (samsung orginal shipped)
> > suse 9.0 (wich is patched already for reading dsdt)
> >
> > help would be great!
> >
> > regards
> > d.
> >
> > Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand
> > progress. -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982
> >
> >
> >
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