ACPICA version 20090123 released

Dmitry Kolosov ivakras1 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 24 10:14:39 PST 2009


On Saturday 24 January 2009 01:30:23 Moore, Robert wrote:
> 23 January 2009. Summary of changes for version 20090123:
>
> This release is available at www.acpica.org/downloads.
>
> 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem:
>
> Added the 2009 copyright to all module headers and signons. This affects
> virtually every file in the ACPICA core subsystem, the iASL compiler, and
> the tools/utilities.
>
> Implemented a change to allow the host to override any ACPI table,
> including dynamically loaded tables. Previously, only the DSDT could be
> replaced by the host. With this change, the AcpiOsTableOverride interface
> is called for each table found in the RSDT/XSDT during ACPICA
> initialization, and also whenever a table is dynamically loaded via the AML
> Load operator.
>
> Updated FADT flag definitions, especially the Boot Architecture flags.
>
> Debugger: For the Find command, automatically pad the input ACPI name with
> underscores if the name is shorter than 4 characters. This enables a match
> with the actual namespace entry which is itself padded with underscores.
>
> 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:  82.3K Code, 17.4K Data,  99.7K Total
>     Debug Version:     157.1K Code, 49.7K Data, 206.8K Total
>   Current Release:
>     Non-Debug Version:  82.3K Code, 17.5K Data,  99.8K Total
>     Debug Version:     157.3K Code, 49.8K Data, 207.1K Total
>
> 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and Tools:
>
> Fix build error under Bison-2.4.
>
> Dissasembler: Enhanced FADT support. Added decoding of the Boot
> Architecture flags. Now decode all flags, regardless of the FADT version.
> Flag output includes the FADT version which first defined each flag.
>
> The iASL -g option now dumps the RSDT to a file (in addition to the FADT
> and DSDT). Windows only.
>
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Can i integrate this new release into my 7-STABLE environment? May be some `how 
to` or other instructions?


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