Re: DSDT/ASL compiler error

[Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org>]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:10:48PM +0200, Ben B wrote:
> Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org> uttered the following thing:
> > On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 12:33:30PM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > dsdt.dsl  3275:                                         And (Local1, 0xFFFF)
> > > > Warning  1104 -        Result is not used, operator has no effect ^ 
> > > > 
> > I'm not sure if that's one is harmless:
> > > > dsdt.dsl  3275:                                         And (Local1, 0xFFFF)
> > It's as if the asl writter wanted to clear the upper bits of Local1, but forgot to
> > assign it back to Local1.  It might be something like this:
> > 	And(Local1, 0xFFFF, Local1)
> > 
> > It's only a rough guess though, and wihtout knowing what was the
> > original intention, and without the source of the ASL, it's hard
> > to tell for sure.
> 
> This is the context around there. I can send the whole asl if you'd like
> also:
> 
>                                 Store (C15B, Local1)
>                                 If (Local1)
>                                 {
>                                     If (And (C165, 0x40))
>                                     {
>                                         Add (Not (Local1), 0x01, Local1)
>                                         And (Local1, 0xFFFF)
>                                     }
>                                 }
> 
>                                 Store (Local1, Index (DerefOf (Index (Local0, 0x02)), 0x0E))

Sound like it really should be And(Local1, 0xFFFF, Local1).

> accelerometer, which I only discovered browsing the ASL:
> 
>             Device (ACEL)
>             {
>                 Name (_HID, EisaId ("HPQ0004"))
> 
> "HP Mobile Data Protection Sensor"....but that's for another project. :)

Indeed.

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