ACPICA version 20081204 released

[Jung-uk Kim]

On Friday 05 December 2008 02:42 pm, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> On Friday 05 December 2008 02:06 pm, Nate Lawson wrote:
> > Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > >> Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 21:48:39 +0300
> > >> From: "Nikolay Tychina" <niktychina at gmail.com>
> > >> Sender: owner-freebsd-acpi at freebsd.org
> > >>
> > >> We are really appreciate you for release, but we can't use it.
> > >> How do i compile it for my FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE ?
> > >>
> > >> (http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=632, somebody
> > >> needs it too :) )
> > >
> > > Unless you are a good FreeBSD hacker, you don't. In a bit of
> > > time, depending on just how busy some folks are, it will be
> > > integrated into the head and, after some testing, MFCed to
> > > RELENG_7.
> > >
> > > I expect it will be there for 7.2, but it's way too late to
> > > make it for 7.1. If you run RELENG_7, it may not be too long
> > > before it shows up.
> >
> > Please do not harass Robert.  He is an Intel developer only and
> > is just making a courtesy announcement on the FreeBSD forums
> > since we use his code.
>
> [Removed CC]
>
> > Some acpi-ca releases are not suitable for integration (think of
> > them like FreeBSD-current).  They need to be integrated, a patch
> > built and tested, etc. before even being committed to HEAD.  If a
> > FreeBSD committer is interested in helping us do that process
> > more regularly, see src/sys/contrib/dev/acpica/acpica_prep.sh for
> > starters.  But remember, you'll often have to implement new
> > kernel APIs to support the different behavior of new acpi-ca
> > versions. It's not just a matter of committing the code.
>
> I have been updating ACPI-CA patchsets regualarly but it is
> becoming harder and harder because of API changes from both FreeBSD
> and ACPI-CA.
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/acpica-import-<ACPICA_RELEASE>.diff
>.gz
>
> Note these patches are generated from my desktop with "HEAD of the
> day" source + bunch of local patches.  I always try to clean up
> unnecessary changes but they are not in committable forms nor
> properly reviewed.
>
> I briefly looked at the changes in this release, too.  It seems I
> need some free time to digest and implement new OSL APIs for it.
> :-(

Robert just let me know that there is no OSL change, actually.  So, I 
just went ahead and updated it:

http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/acpica-import-20081204.diff.gz

Thanks, Robert!

Jung-uk Kim