recent virtualbox breakage

Brandon Gooch jamesbrandongooch at gmail.com
Fri Oct 22 22:06:36 UTC 2010


On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Michael Butler
<imb at protected-networks.net> wrote:
> On 10/15/10 09:19, Bernhard Froehlich wrote:
>> On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 08:08:39 -0400, Michael Butler
>> <imb at protected-networks.net> wrote:
>>> 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)
>>> *** Error code 1
>
>  [ .. ]
>
>> I don't know enough about acpi to properly fix this but how about
>> trying to follow the error message? So replace "smc-napa" with "smcnapa"
>> and see if it works. Probably jkim@ has some time to look into that.
>
> After removing the hyphen, it compiles, installs and runs as expected,
>
>        imb

Same situation here. What are the implications of this change? Is the
'smc-napa' some sort of label?

-Brandon


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