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Date:      Tue, 2 Nov 2010 08:10:16 -0700
From:      "Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@intel.com>
To:        Bernhard Froehlich <decke@FreeBSD.org>, "freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.org>, Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "vbox@FreeBSD.org" <vbox@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   RE: VirtualBox: Compile problems with ACPICA 20101013
Message-ID:  <4911F71203A09E4D9981D27F9D830858BC3F48FC@orsmsx503.amr.corp.intel.com>
In-Reply-To: <fd8c8258b54aba029c87d979f4d61f26@bluelife.at>
References:  <fd8c8258b54aba029c87d979f4d61f26@bluelife.at>

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We may have gone a bit overboard on this one in iASL. Correct, if it is a s=
tring, _CID is not restricted to alphanumeric. However, it appears the stri=
ng must be non-null.

Bob


>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
>acpi@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Bernhard Froehlich
>Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 2:45 AM
>To: freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.org
>Cc: vbox@FreeBSD.org
>Subject: VirtualBox: Compile problems with ACPICA 20101013
>
>Hi guys!
>
>VirtualBox has a compile problem with latest acpica. I've talked to the
>VirtualBox developers and they think it's an acpica problem which should
>be fixed upstream. Can we somehow file a bugreport or create a patch to
>fix that in acpica?
>
>Compile error:
>kBuild: iasl DevicesR3 -
>/usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose/work/VirtualBox-
>3.2.10_OSE/src/VBox/Devices/PC/vbox.dsl
>/usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose/work/VirtualBox-
>3.2.10_OSE/src/VBox/Devices/PC/vbox.dsl
>   736:                     Name (_CID, "smc-napa")
>Error    4001 -
>                                String must be entirely alphanumeric ^
>(smc-napa)
>
>ASL Input:
>/usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose/work/VirtualBox-
>3.2.10_OSE/src/VBox/Devices/PC/vbox.dsl
>- 1305 lines, 46193 bytes, 288 keywords
>Compilation complete. 1 Errors, 0 Warnings, 0 Remarks, 404
>Optimizations
>
>
>I have found the commit that introduces this additional checks:
>http://git.moblin.org/cgit.cgi/acpica/commit/?id=3Db66fd716e0b9b5389e544c5=
8df
>189c817f316c3b
>
>and here is the dsl file from virtualbox:
>http://www.virtualbox.org/browser/trunk/src/VBox/Devices/PC/vbox.dsl#L781
>
>
>Thanks!
>
>--
>Bernhard Froehlich
>http://www.bluelife.at/
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