Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 17:02:16 -0400 From: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.org Cc: "Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@intel.com> Subject: Re: ACPICA version 20080701 released Message-ID: <200807011702.29351.jkim@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <9D39833986E69849A2A8E74C1078B6B3986B2D@orsmsx415.amr.corp.intel.com> References: <9D39833986E69849A2A8E74C1078B6B3986B2D@orsmsx415.amr.corp.intel.com>
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On Tuesday 01 July 2008 03:20 pm, Moore, Robert wrote: > 01 July 2008. Summary of changes for version 20080701: > > This release is available at http://acpica.org/downloads > Direct git access via http://www.acpica.org/repos/acpica.git > > 0) Git source tree / acpica.org > > Fixed a problem where a git-clone from http would not transfer the > entire source tree. > > 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: > > Implemented a "careful" GPE disable in AcpiEvDisableGpe, only > modify one enable bit. Now performs a read-change-write of the > enable register instead of simply writing out the cached enable > mask. This will prevent inadvertent enabling of GPEs if a rogue GPE > is received during initialization (before GPE handlers are > installed.) > > Implemented a copy for dynamically loaded tables. Previously, > dynamically loaded tables were simply mapped - but on some machines > this memory is corrupted after suspend. Now copy the table to a > local buffer. For the OpRegion case, added checksum verify. Use the > table length from the table header, not the region length. For the > Buffer case, use the table length also. Dennis Noordsij, Bob Moore. > BZ 10734 > > Fixed a problem where the same ACPI table could not be dynamically > loaded and unloaded more than once. Without this change, a table > cannot be loaded again once it has been loaded/unloaded one time. > The current mechanism does not unregister a table upon an unload. > During a load, if the same table is found, this no longer returns > an exception. BZ 722 > > Fixed a problem where the wrong descriptor length was calculated > for the EndTag descriptor in 64-bit mode. The "minimal" descriptors > such as EndTag are calculated as 12 bytes long, but the actual > length in the internal descriptor is 16 because of the round-up to > 8 on the 64-bit build. Reported by Linn Crosetto. BZ 728 > > Fixed a possible memory leak in the Unload operator. The DdbHandle > returned by Load() did not have its reference count decremented > during unload, leading to a memory leak. Lin Ming. BZ 727 > > Fixed a possible memory leak when deleting thermal/processor > objects. Any associated notify handlers (and objects) were not > being deleted. Fiodor Suietov. BZ 506 > > Fixed the ordering of the ASCII names in the global mutex table to > match the actual mutex IDs. Used by AcpiUtGetMutexName, a function > used for debug only. Vegard Nossum. BZ 726 > > Enhanced the AcpiGetObjectInfo interface to return the number of > required arguments if the object is a control method. Added this > call to the debugger so the proper number of default arguments are > passed to a method. This prevents a warning when executing methods > from AcpiExec. > > Added a check for an invalid handle in AcpiGetObjectInfo. Return > AE_BAD_PARAMETER if input handle is invalid. BZ 474 > > Fixed an extraneous warning from exconfig.c on the 64-bit build. > > Example Code and Data Size: These are the sizes for the > OS-independent acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 > 32-bit compiler. The debug version of the code includes the debug > output trace mechanism and has a much larger code and data size. > > Previous Release: > Non-Debug Version: 79.3K Code, 16.2K Data, 95.5K Total > Debug Version: 153.0K Code, 48.2K Data, 201.2K Total > Current Release: > Non-Debug Version: 79.6K Code, 16.2K Data, 95.8K Total > Debug Version: 153.5K Code, 48.2K Data, 201.7K Total > > 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and Tools: > > iASL: Added two missing ACPI reserved names. Added _MTP and _ASZ, > both resource descriptor names. > > iASL: Detect invalid ASCII characters in input (windows version). > Removed the "-CF" flag from the flex compile, enables correct > detection of non-ASCII characters in the input. BZ 441 > > iASL: Eliminate warning when result of LoadTable is not used. > Eliminate the "result of operation not used" warning when the DDB > handle returned from LoadTable is not used. The warning is not > needed. BZ 590 > > AcpiExec: Add support for dynamic table load/unload. Now calls _CFG > method to pass address of table to the AML. Added option to disable > OpRegion simulation to allow creation of an OpRegion with a real > address that was passed to _CFG. All of this allows testing of the > Load and Unload operators from AcpiExec. > > Debugger: update tables command for unloaded tables. Handle > unloaded tables and use the standard table header output routine. As usual, ACPI-CA patches against FreeBSD -CURRENT is here: http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/acpica-import-20080701.diff.gz Jung-uk Kim
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