From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vernon Mauery Subject: Re: [ACPI] Call for help: list of machines with working S3 Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 08:44:00 -0800 Message-ID: <4214C9D0.1090707@us.ibm.com> References: <20050214211105.GA12808@elf.ucw.cz> <1108621005.2096.412.camel@d845pe> <1108638021.4085.143.camel@tyrosine> <4214C3B8.30502@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <4214C3B8.30502@gmx.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger Cc: Matthew Garrett , Len Brown , Pavel Machek , ACPI mailing list , Kernel Mailing List , seife@suse.de, rjw@sisk.pl List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > 1. A first step towards better DSDTs would be to make the ASL compiler > complain about the same things which are complained about by the > in-kernel ACPI interpreter. An example would be the following: > > acpi_processor-0496 [10] acpi_processor_get_inf: Invalid PBLK length [7] > > The ASL compiler will not complain about it, yet the kernel will > refuse to do any processor throttling with a PBLK length of 7. This is like getting gcc to complain about run-time bugs in a program. The compiler of a language (ASL in this case) compiles the language, regardless of run-time bugs because it can only detect syntax errors. And iasl does that pretty well. --Vernon