recent virtualbox breakage

[Bernhard Froehlich]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:06:34 -0500, Brandon Gooch
<jamesbrandongooch at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

I've spoken to the virtualbox developers and our acpi@ guys but could
not get an answer yet who is wrong. You can get the details at the
thread on acpi:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-acpi/2010-October/006795.html

Best solution for now is to remove the hyphen but I think a proper
solution would be to fix the regression in acpica.

-- 
Bernhard Froehlich
http://www.bluelife.at/