---------------------------------------- 09 November 2006. Summary of changes for version 20061109: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Optimized the Load ASL operator in the case where the source operand is an operation region. Simply map the operation region memory, instead of performing a bytewise read. (Region must be of type SystemMemory, see below.) Fixed the Load ASL operator for the case where the source operand is a region field. A buffer object is also allowed as the source operand. BZ 480 Fixed a problem where the Load ASL operator allowed the source operand to be an operation region of any type. It is now restricted to regions of type SystemMemory, as per the ACPI specification. BZ 481 Additional cleanup and optimizations for the new Table Manager code. AcpiEnable will now fail if all of the required ACPI tables are not loaded (FADT, FACS, DSDT). BZ 477 Added #pragma pack(8/4) to acobject.h to ensure that the structures in this header are always compiled as aligned. The ACPI_OPERAND_OBJECT has been manually optimized to be aligned and will not work if it is byte-packed. 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: 78.1K Code, 17.1K Data, 95.2K Total Debug Version: 155.4K Code, 63.1K Data, 218.5K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 77.9K Code, 17.0K Data, 94.9K Total Debug Version: 155.2K Code, 63.1K Data, 218.3K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and Tools: Fixed a problem where the presence of the _OSI predefined control method within complex expressions could cause an internal compiler error. AcpiExec: Implemented full region support for multiple address spaces. SpaceId is now part of the REGION object. BZ 429 ---------------------------------------- 11 October 2006. Summary of changes for version 20061011: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Completed an AML interpreter performance enhancement for control method execution. Previously a 2-pass parse/execution, control methods are now completely parsed and executed in a single pass. This improves overall interpreter performance by ~25%, reduces code size, and reduces CPU stack use. (Valery Podrezov + interpreter changes in version 20051202 that eliminated namespace loading during the pass one parse.) Implemented _CID support for PCI Root Bridge detection. If the _HID does not match the predefined PCI Root Bridge IDs, the _CID list (if present) is now obtained and also checked for an ID match. Implemented additional support for the PCI _ADR execution: upsearch until a device scope is found before executing _ADR. This allows PCI_Config operation regions to be declared locally within control methods underneath PCI device objects. Fixed a problem with a possible race condition between threads executing AcpiWalkNamespace and the AML interpreter. This condition was removed by modifying AcpiWalkNamespace to (by default) ignore all temporary namespace entries created during any concurrent control method execution. An additional namespace race condition is known to exist between AcpiWalkNamespace and the Load/Unload ASL operators and is still under investigation. Restructured the AML ParseLoop function, breaking it into several subfunctions in order to reduce CPU stack use and improve maintainability. (Mikhail Kouzmich) AcpiGetHandle: Fix for parameter validation to detect invalid combinations of prefix handle and pathname. BZ 478 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: 77.9K Code, 17.1K Data, 95.0K Total Debug Version: 154.6K Code, 63.0K Data, 217.6K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.1K Code, 17.1K Data, 95.2K Total Debug Version: 155.4K Code, 63.1K Data, 218.5K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and Tools: Ported the -g option (get local ACPI tables) to the new ACPICA Table Manager to restore original behavior. ---------------------------------------- 27 September 2006. Summary of changes for version 20060927: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Removed the "Flags" parameter from AcpiGetRegister and AcpiSetRegister. These functions now use a spinlock for mutual exclusion and the interrupt level indication flag is not needed. Fixed a problem with the Global Lock where the lock could appear to be obtained before it is actually obtained. The global lock semaphore was inadvertently created with one unit instead of zero units. (BZ 464) Fiodor Suietov. Fixed a possible memory leak and fault in AcpiExResolveObjectToValue during a read from a buffer or region field. (BZ 458) Fiodor Suietov. 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: 77.9K Code, 17.1K Data, 95.0K Total Debug Version: 154.7K Code, 63.0K Data, 217.7K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 77.9K Code, 17.1K Data, 95.0K Total Debug Version: 154.6K Code, 63.0K Data, 217.6K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and Tools: Fixed a compilation problem with the pre-defined Resource Descriptor field names where an "object does not exist" error could be incorrectly generated if the parent ResourceTemplate pathname places the template within a different namespace scope than the current scope. (BZ 7212) Fixed a problem where the compiler could hang after syntax errors detected in an ElseIf construct. (BZ 453) Fixed a problem with the AmlFilename parameter to the DefinitionBlock() operator. An incorrect output filename was produced when this parameter was a null string (""). Now, the original input filename is used as the AML output filename, with an ".aml" extension. Implemented a generic batch command mode for the AcpiExec utility (execute any AML debugger command) (Valery Podrezov). ---------------------------------------- 12 September 2006. Summary of changes for version 20060912: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Enhanced the implementation of the "serialized mode" of the interpreter (enabled via the AcpiGbl_AllMethodsSerialized flag.) When this mode is specified, instead of creating a serialization semaphore per control method, the interpreter lock is simply no longer released before a blocking operation during control method execution. This effectively makes the AML Interpreter single-threaded. The overhead of a semaphore per-method is eliminated. Fixed a regression where an error was no longer emitted if a control method attempts to create 2 objects of the same name. This once again returns AE_ALREADY_EXISTS. When this exception occurs, it invokes the mechanism that will dynamically serialize the control method to possible prevent future errors. (BZ 440) Integrated a fix for a problem with PCI Express HID detection in the PCI Config Space setup procedure. (BZ 7145) Moved all FADT-related functions to a new file, tbfadt.c. Eliminated the AcpiHwInitialize function - the FADT registers are now validated when the table is loaded. Added two new warnings during FADT verification - 1) if the FADT is larger than the largest known FADT version, and 2) if there is a mismatch between a 32-bit block address and the 64-bit X counterpart (when both are non-zero.) 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: 77.9K Code, 16.7K Data, 94.6K Total Debug Version: 154.9K Code, 62.6K Data, 217.5K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 77.9K Code, 17.1K Data, 95.0K Total Debug Version: 154.7K Code, 63.0K Data, 217.7K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and Tools: Fixed a problem with the implementation of the Switch() operator where the temporary variable was declared too close to the actual Switch, instead of at method level. This could cause a problem if the Switch() operator is within a while loop, causing an error on the second iteration. (BZ 460) Disassembler - fix for error emitted for unknown type for target of scope operator. Now, ignore it and continue. Disassembly of an FADT now verifies the input FADT and reports any errors found. Fix for proper disassembly of full-sized (ACPI 2.0) FADTs. Disassembly of raw data buffers with byte initialization data now prefixes each output line with the current buffer offset. Disassembly of ASF! table now includes all variable-length data fields at the end of some of the subtables. The disassembler now emits a comment if a buffer appears to be a ResourceTemplate, but cannot be disassembled as such because the EndTag does not appear at the very end of the buffer. AcpiExec - Added the "-t" command line option to enable the serialized mode of the AML interpreter. ---------------------------------------- 31 August 2006. Summary of changes for version 20060831: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Miscellaneous fixes for the Table Manager: - Correctly initialize internal common FADT for all 64-bit "X" fields - Fixed a couple table mapping issues during table load - Fixed a couple alignment issues for IA64 - Initialize input array to zero in AcpiInitializeTables - Additional parameter validation for AcpiGetTable, AcpiGetTableHeader, AcpiGetTableByIndex Change for GPE support: when a "wake" GPE is received, all wake GPEs are now immediately disabled to prevent the waking GPE from firing again and to prevent other wake GPEs from interrupting the wake process. Added the AcpiGpeCount global that tracks the number of processed GPEs, to be used for debugging systems with a large number of ACPI interrupts. Implemented support for the "DMAR" ACPI table (DMA Redirection Table) in both the ACPICA headers and the disassembler. 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: 77.8K Code, 16.5K Data, 94.3K Total Debug Version: 154.6K Code, 62.3K Data, 216.9K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 77.9K Code, 16.7K Data, 94.6K Total Debug Version: 154.9K Code, 62.6K Data, 217.5K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and Tools: Disassembler support for the DMAR ACPI table. ---------------------------------------- 23 August 2006. Summary of changes for version 20060823: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: The Table Manager component has been completely redesigned and reimplemented. The new design is much simpler, and reduces the overall code and data size of the kernel-resident ACPICA by approximately 5%. Also, it is now possible to obtain the ACPI tables very early during kernel initialization, even before dynamic memory management is initialized. (Alexey Starikovskiy, Fiodor Suietov, Bob Moore) Obsolete ACPICA interfaces: - AcpiGetFirmwareTable: Use AcpiGetTable instead (works at early kernel init time). - AcpiLoadTable: Not needed. - AcpiUnloadTable: Not needed. New ACPICA interfaces: - AcpiInitializeTables: Must be called before the table manager can be used. - AcpiReallocateRootTable: Used to transfer the root table to dynamically allocated memory after it becomes available. - AcpiGetTableByIndex: Allows the host to easily enumerate all ACPI tables in the RSDT/XSDT. Other ACPICA changes: - AcpiGetTableHeader returns the actual mapped table header, not a copy. Use AcpiOsUnmapMemory to free this mapping. - AcpiGetTable returns the actual mapped table. The mapping is managed internally and must not be deleted by the caller. Use of this interface causes no additional dynamic memory allocation. - AcpiFindRootPointer: Support for physical addressing has been eliminated, it appeared to be unused. - The interface to AcpiOsMapMemory has changed to be consistent with the other allocation interfaces. - The interface to AcpiOsGetRootPointer has changed to eliminate unnecessary parameters. - ACPI_PHYSICAL_ADDRESS is now 32 bits on 32-bit platforms, 64 bits on 64-bit platforms. Was previously 64 bits on all platforms. - The interface to the ACPI Global Lock acquire/release macros have changed slightly since ACPICA no longer keeps a local copy of the FACS with a constructed pointer to the actual global lock. Porting to the new table manager: - AcpiInitializeTables: Must be called once, and can be called anytime during the OS initialization process. It allows the host to specify an area of memory to be used to store the internal version of the RSDT/XSDT (root table). This allows the host to access ACPI tables before memory management is initialized and running. - AcpiReallocateRootTable: Can be called after memory management is running to copy the root table to a dynamically allocated array, freeing up the scratch memory specified in the call to AcpiInitializeTables. - AcpiSubsystemInitialize: This existing interface is independent of the Table Manager, and does not have to be called before the Table Manager can be used, it only must be called before the rest of ACPICA can be used. - ACPI Tables: Some changes have been made to the names and structure of the actbl.h and actbl1.h header files and may require changes to existing code. For example, bitfields have been completely removed because of their lack of portability across C compilers. - Update interfaces to the Global Lock acquire/release macros if local versions are used. (see acwin.h) Obsolete files: tbconvrt.c, tbget.c, tbgetall.c, tbrsdt.c New files: tbfind.c 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: 80.7K Code, 17.9K Data, 98.6K Total Debug Version: 161.0K Code, 65.1K Data, 226.1K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 77.8K Code, 16.5K Data, 94.3K Total Debug Version: 154.6K Code, 62.3K Data, 216.9K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and Tools: No changes for this release. ---------------------------------------- 21 July 2006. Summary of changes for version 20060721: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: The full source code for the ASL test suite used to validate the iASL compiler and the ACPICA core subsystem is being released with the ACPICA source for the first time. The source is contained in a separate package and consists of over 1100 files that exercise all ASL/AML operators. The package should appear on the Intel/ACPI web site shortly. (Valery Podrezov, Fiodor Suietov) Completed a new design and implementation for support of the ACPI Global Lock. On the OS side, the global lock is now treated as a standard AML mutex. Previously, multiple OS threads could "acquire" the global lock simultaneously. However, this could cause the BIOS to be starved out of the lock - especially in cases such as the Embedded Controller driver where there is a tight coupling between the OS and the BIOS. Implemented an optimization for the ACPI Global Lock interrupt mechanism. The Global Lock interrupt handler no longer queues the execution of a separate thread to signal the global lock semaphore. Instead, the semaphore is signaled directly from the interrupt handler. Implemented support within the AML interpreter for package objects that contain a larger AML length (package list length) than the package element count. In this case, the length of the package is truncated to match the package element count. Some BIOS code apparently modifies the package length on the fly, and this change supports this behavior. Provides compatibility with the MS AML interpreter. (With assistance from Fiodor Suietov) Implemented a temporary fix for the BankValue parameter of a Bank Field to support all constant values, now including the Zero and One opcodes. Evaluation of this parameter must eventually be converted to a full TermArg evaluation. A not-implemented error is now returned (temporarily) for non-constant values for this parameter. Fixed problem reports (Fiodor Suietov) integrated: - Fix for premature object deletion after CopyObject on Operation Region (BZ 350) 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: 80.7K Code, 18.0K Data, 98.7K Total Debug Version: 160.9K Code, 65.1K Data, 226.0K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 80.7K Code, 17.9K Data, 98.6K Total Debug Version: 161.0K Code, 65.1K Data, 226.1K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and Tools: No changes for this release. ---------------------------------------- 07 July 2006. Summary of changes for version 20060707: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Added the ACPI_PACKED_POINTERS_NOT_SUPPORTED macro to support C compilers that do not allow the initialization of address pointers within packed structures - even though the hardware itself may support misaligned transfers. Some of the debug data structures are packed by default to minimize size. Added an error message for the case where AcpiOsGetThreadId() returns zero. A non-zero value is required by the core ACPICA code to ensure the proper operation of AML mutexes and recursive control methods. The DSDT is now the only ACPI table that determines whether the AML interpreter is in 32-bit or 64-bit mode. Not really a functional change, but the hooks for per-table 32/64 switching have been removed from the code. A clarification to the ACPI specification is forthcoming in ACPI 3.0B. Fixed a possible leak of an OwnerID in the error path of AcpiTbInitTableDescriptor (tbinstal.c), and migrated all table OwnerID deletion to a single place in AcpiTbUninstallTable to correct possible leaks when using the AcpiTbDeleteTablesByType interface (with assistance from Lance Ortiz.) Fixed a problem with Serialized control methods where the semaphore associated with the method could be over-signaled after multiple method invocations. Fixed two issues with the locking of the internal namespace data structure. Both the Unload() operator and AcpiUnloadTable interface now lock the namespace during the namespace deletion associated with the table unload (with assistance from Linn Crosetto.) Fixed problem reports (Valery Podrezov) integrated: - Eliminate unnecessary memory allocation for CreateXxxxField (BZ 5426) Fixed problem reports (Fiodor Suietov) integrated: - Incomplete cleanup branches in AcpiTbGetTableRsdt (BZ 369) - On Address Space handler deletion, needless deactivation call (BZ 374) - AcpiRemoveAddressSpaceHandler: validate Device handle parameter (BZ 375) - Possible memory leak, Notify sub-objects of Processor, Power, ThermalZone (BZ 376) - AcpiRemoveAddressSpaceHandler: validate Handler parameter (BZ 378) - Minimum Length of RSDT should be validated (BZ 379) - AcpiRemoveNotifyHandler: return AE_NOT_EXIST if Processor Obj has no Handler (BZ (380) - AcpiUnloadTable: return AE_NOT_EXIST if no table of specified type loaded (BZ 381) 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: 80.5K Code, 17.8K Data, 98.3K Total Debug Version: 160.8K Code, 64.8K Data, 225.6K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 80.7K Code, 17.9K Data, 98.6K Total Debug Version: 161.0K Code, 65.1K Data, 226.1K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and Tools: Fixed problem reports: Compiler segfault when ASL contains a long (>1024) String declaration (BZ 436) ---------------------------------------- 23 June 2006. Summary of changes for version 20060623: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Implemented a new ACPI_SPINLOCK type for the OSL lock interfaces. This allows the type to be customized to the host OS for improved efficiency (since a spinlock is usually a very small object.) Implemented support for "ignored" bits in the ACPI registers. According to the ACPI specification, these bits should be preserved when writing the registers via a read/modify/write cycle. There are 3 bits preserved in this manner: PM1_CONTROL[0] (SCI_EN), PM1_CONTROL[9], and PM1_STATUS[11]. Implemented the initial deployment of new OSL mutex interfaces. Since some host operating systems have separate mutex and semaphore objects, this feature was requested. The base code now uses mutexes (and the new mutex interfaces) wherever a binary semaphore was used previously. However, for the current release, the mutex interfaces are defined as macros to map them to the existing semaphore interfaces. Therefore, no OSL changes are required at this time. (See acpiosxf.h) Fixed several problems with the support for the control method SyncLevel parameter. The SyncLevel now works according to the ACPI specification and in concert with the Mutex SyncLevel parameter, since the current SyncLevel is a property of the executing thread. Mutual exclusion for control methods is now implemented with a mutex instead of a semaphore. Fixed three instances of the use of the C shift operator in the bitfield support code (exfldio.c) to avoid the use of a shift value larger than the target data width. The behavior of C compilers is undefined in this case and can cause unpredictable results, and therefore the case must be detected and avoided. (Fiodor Suietov) Added an info message whenever an SSDT or OEM table is loaded dynamically via the Load() or LoadTable() ASL operators. This should improve debugging capability since it will show exactly what tables have been loaded (beyond the tables present in the RSDT/XSDT.) 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: 80.0K Code, 17.6K Data, 97.6K Total Debug Version: 160.2K Code, 64.7K Data, 224.9K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 80.5K Code, 17.8K Data, 98.3K Total Debug Version: 160.8K Code, 64.8K Data, 225.6K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and Tools: No changes for this release. ---------------------------------------- 08 June 2006. Summary of changes for version 20060608: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Converted the locking mutex used for the ACPI hardware to a spinlock. This change should eliminate all problems caused by attempting to acquire a semaphore at interrupt level, and it means that all ACPICA external interfaces that directly access the ACPI hardware can be safely called from interrupt level. OSL code that implements the semaphore interfaces should be able to eliminate any workarounds for being called at interrupt level. Fixed a regression introduced in 20060526 where the ACPI device initialization could be prematurely aborted with an AE_NOT_FOUND if a device did not have an optional _INI method. Fixed an IndexField issue where a write to the Data Register should be limited in size to the AccessSize (width) of the IndexField itself. (BZ 433, Fiodor Suietov) Fixed problem reports (Valery Podrezov) integrated: - Allow store of ThermalZone objects to Debug object (BZ 5369/5370) Fixed problem reports (Fiodor Suietov) integrated: - AcpiGetTableHeader doesn't handle multiple instances correctly (BZ 364) Removed four global mutexes that were obsolete and were no longer being used. 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: 80.0K Code, 17.7K Data, 97.7K Total Debug Version: 160.3K Code, 64.9K Data, 225.2K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 80.0K Code, 17.6K Data, 97.6K Total Debug Version: 160.2K Code, 64.7K Data, 224.9K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and Tools: Fixed a fault when using -g option (get tables from registry) on Windows machines. Fixed problem reports integrated: - Generate error if CreateField NumBits parameter is zero. (BZ 405) - Fault if Offset/Length in Field unit is very large (BZ 432, Fiodor Suietov) - Global table revision override (-r) is ignored (BZ 413) ---------------------------------------- 26 May 2006. Summary of changes for version 20060526: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Restructured, flattened, and simplified the internal interfaces for namespace object evaluation - resulting in smaller code, less CPU stack use, and fewer interfaces. (With assistance from Mikhail Kouzmich) Fixed a problem with the CopyObject operator where the first parameter was not typed correctly for the parser, interpreter, compiler, and disassembler. Caused various errors and unexpected behavior. Fixed a problem where a ShiftLeft or ShiftRight of more than 64 bits produced incorrect results with some C compilers. Since the behavior of C compilers when the shift value is larger than the datatype width is apparently not well defined, the interpreter now detects this condition and simply returns zero as expected in all such cases. (BZ 395) Fixed problem reports (Valery Podrezov) integrated: - Update String-to-Integer conversion to match ACPI 3.0A spec (BZ 5329) - Allow interpreter to handle nested method declarations (BZ 5361) Fixed problem reports (Fiodor Suietov) integrated: - AcpiTerminate doesn't free debug memory allocation list objects (BZ 355) - After Core Subsystem shutdown, AcpiSubsystemStatus returns AE_OK (BZ 356) - AcpiOsUnmapMemory for RSDP can be invoked inconsistently (BZ 357) - Resource Manager should return AE_TYPE for non-device objects (BZ 358) - Incomplete cleanup branch in AcpiNsEvaluateRelative (BZ 359) - Use AcpiOsFree instead of ACPI_FREE in AcpiRsSetSrsMethodData (BZ 360) - Incomplete cleanup branch in AcpiPsParseAml (BZ 361) - Incomplete cleanup branch in AcpiDsDeleteWalkState (BZ 362) - AcpiGetTableHeader returns AE_NO_ACPI_TABLES until DSDT is loaded (BZ 365) - Status of the Global Initialization Handler call not used (BZ 366) - Incorrect object parameter to Global Initialization Handler (BZ 367) 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: 79.8K Code, 17.7K Data, 97.5K Total Debug Version: 160.5K Code, 65.1K Data, 225.6K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 80.0K Code, 17.7K Data, 97.7K Total Debug Version: 160.3K Code, 64.9K Data, 225.2K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and Tools: Modified the parser to allow the names IO, DMA, and IRQ to be used as namespace identifiers with no collision with existing resource descriptor macro names. This provides compatibility with other ASL compilers and is most useful for disassembly/recompilation of existing tables without parse errors. (With assistance from Thomas Renninger) Disassembler: fixed an incorrect disassembly problem with the DataTableRegion and CopyObject operators. Fixed a possible fault during disassembly of some Alias operators. ---------------------------------------- 12 May 2006. Summary of changes for version 20060512: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Replaced the AcpiOsQueueForExecution interface with a new interface named AcpiOsExecute. The major difference is that the new interface does not have a Priority parameter, this appeared to be useless and has been replaced by a Type parameter. The Type tells the host what type of execution is being requested, such as global lock handler, notify handler, GPE handler, etc. This allows the host to queue and execute the request as appropriate for the request type, possibly using different work queues and different priorities for the various request types. This enables fixes for multithreading deadlock problems such as BZ #5534, and will require changes to all existing OS interface layers. (Alexey Starikovskiy and Bob Moore) Fixed a possible memory leak associated with the support for the so-called "implicit return" ACPI extension. Reported by FreeBSD, BZ #6514. (Fiodor Suietov) Fixed a problem with the Load() operator where a table load from an operation region could overwrite an internal table buffer by up to 7 bytes and cause alignment faults on IPF systems. (With assistance from Luming Yu) 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: 79.7K Code, 17.7K Data, 97.4K Total Debug Version: 160.1K Code, 65.2K Data, 225.3K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 79.8K Code, 17.7K Data, 97.5K Total Debug Version: 160.5K Code, 65.1K Data, 225.6K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and Tools: Disassembler: Implemented support to cross reference the internal namespace and automatically generate ASL External() statements for symbols not defined within the current table being disassembled. This will simplify the disassembly and recompilation of interdependent tables such as SSDTs since these statements will no longer have to be added manually. Disassembler: Implemented experimental support to automatically detect invocations of external control methods and generate appropriate External() statements. This is problematic because the AML cannot be correctly parsed until the number of arguments for each control method is known. Currently, standalone method invocations and invocations as the source operand of a Store() statement are supported. Disassembler: Implemented support for the ASL pseudo-operators LNotEqual, LLessEqual, and LGreaterEqual. Previously disassembled as LNot(LEqual()), LNot(LGreater()), and LNot(LLess()), this makes the disassembled ASL code more readable and likely closer to the original ASL source. ---------------------------------------- 21 April 2006. Summary of changes for version 20060421: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Removed a device initialization optimization introduced in 20051216 where the _STA method was not run unless an _INI was also present for the same device. This optimization could cause problems because it could allow _INI methods to be run within a not-present device subtree. (If a not-present device had no _INI, _STA would not be run, the not-present status would not be discovered, and the children of the device would be incorrectly traversed.) Implemented a new _STA optimization where namespace subtrees that do not contain _INI are identified and ignored during device initialization. Selectively running _STA can significantly improve boot time on large machines (with assistance from Len Brown.) Implemented support for the device initialization case where the returned _STA flags indicate a device not-present but functioning. In this case, _INI is not run, but the device children are examined for presence, as per the ACPI specification. Implemented an additional change to the IndexField support in order to conform to MS behavior. The value written to the Index Register is not simply a byte offset, it is a byte offset in units of the access width of the parent Index Field. (Fiodor Suietov) Defined and deployed a new OSL interface, AcpiOsValidateAddress. This interface is called during the creation of all AML operation regions, and allows the host OS to exert control over what addresses it will allow the AML code to access. Operation Regions whose addresses are disallowed will cause a runtime exception when they are actually accessed (will not affect or abort table loading.) See oswinxf or osunixxf for an example implementation. Defined and deployed a new OSL interface, AcpiOsValidateInterface. This interface allows the host OS to match the various "optional" interface/behavior strings for the _OSI predefined control method as appropriate (with assistance from Bjorn Helgaas.) See oswinxf or osunixxf for an example implementation. Restructured and corrected various problems in the exception handling code paths within DsCallControlMethod and DsTerminateControlMethod in dsmethod (with assistance from Takayoshi Kochi.) Modified the Linux source converter to ignore quoted string literals while converting identifiers from mixed to lower case. This will correct problems with the disassembler and other areas where such strings must not be modified. The ACPI_FUNCTION_* macros no longer require quotes around the function name. This allows the Linux source converter to convert the names, now that the converter ignores quoted strings. 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: 81.1K Code, 17.7K Data, 98.8K Total Debug Version: 158.9K Code, 64.9K Data, 223.8K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 79.7K Code, 17.7K Data, 97.4K Total Debug Version: 160.1K Code, 65.2K Data, 225.3K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and Tools: Implemented 3 new warnings for iASL, and implemented multiple warning levels (w2 flag). 1) Ignored timeouts: If the TimeoutValue parameter to Wait or Acquire is not WAIT_FOREVER (0xFFFF) and the code does not examine the return value to check for the possible timeout, a warning is issued. 2) Useless operators: If an ASL operator does not specify an optional target operand and it also does not use the function return value from the operator, a warning is issued since the operator effectively does nothing. 3) Unreferenced objects: If a namespace object is created, but never referenced, a warning is issued. This is a warning level 2 since there are cases where this is ok, such as when a secondary table is loaded that uses the unreferenced objects. Even so, care is taken to only flag objects that don't look like they will ever be used. For example, the reserved methods (starting with an underscore) are usually not referenced because it is expected that the OS will invoke them. ---------------------------------------- 31 March 2006. Summary of changes for version 20060331: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Implemented header file support for the following additional ACPI tables: ASF!, BOOT, CPEP, DBGP, MCFG, SPCR, SPMI, TCPA, and WDRT. With this support, all current and known ACPI tables are now defined in the ACPICA headers and are available for use by device drivers and other software. Implemented support to allow tables that contain ACPI names with invalid characters to be loaded. Previously, this would cause the table load to fail, but since there are several known cases of such tables on existing machines, this change was made to enable ACPI support for them. Also, this matches the behavior of the Microsoft ACPI implementation. Fixed a couple regressions introduced during the memory optimization in the 20060317 release. The namespace node definition required additional reorganization and an internal datatype that had been changed to 8-bit was restored to 32-bit. (Valery Podrezov) Fixed a problem where a null pointer passed to AcpiUtDeleteGenericState could be passed through to AcpiOsReleaseObject which is unexpected. Such null pointers are now trapped and ignored, matching the behavior of the previous implementation before the deployment of AcpiOsReleaseObject. (Valery Podrezov, Fiodor Suietov) Fixed a memory mapping leak during the deletion of a SystemMemory operation region where a cached memory mapping was not deleted. This became a noticeable problem for operation regions that are defined within frequently used control methods. (Dana Meyers) Reorganized the ACPI table header files into two main files: one for the ACPI tables consumed by the ACPICA core, and another for the miscellaneous ACPI tables that are consumed by the drivers and other software. The various FADT definitions were merged into one common section and three different tables (ACPI 1.0, 1.0+, and 2.0) 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: 80.9K Code, 17.7K Data, 98.6K Total Debug Version: 158.7K Code, 64.8K Data, 223.5K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 81.1K Code, 17.7K Data, 98.8K Total Debug Version: 158.9K Code, 64.9K Data, 223.8K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and Tools: Disassembler: Implemented support to decode and format all non-AML ACPI tables (tables other than DSDTs and SSDTs.) This includes the new tables added to the ACPICA headers, therefore all current and known ACPI tables are supported. Disassembler: The change to allow ACPI names with invalid characters also enables the disassembly of such tables. Invalid characters within names are changed to '*' to make the name printable; the iASL compiler will still generate an error for such names, however, since this is an invalid ACPI character. Implemented an option for AcpiXtract (-a) to extract all tables found in the input file. The default invocation extracts only the DSDTs and SSDTs. Fixed a couple of gcc generation issues for iASL and AcpiExec and added a makefile for the AcpiXtract utility. ---------------------------------------- 17 March 2006. Summary of changes for version 20060317: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Implemented the use of a cache object for all internal namespace nodes. Since there are about 1000 static nodes in a typical system, this will decrease memory use for cache implementations that minimize per-allocation overhead (such as a slab allocator.) Removed the reference count mechanism for internal namespace nodes, since it was deemed unnecessary. This reduces the size of each namespace node by about 5%-10% on all platforms. Nodes are now 20 bytes for the 32-bit case, and 32 bytes for the 64-bit case. Optimized several internal data structures to reduce object size on 64-bit platforms by packing data within the 64-bit alignment. This includes the frequently used ACPI_OPERAND_OBJECT, of which there can be ~1000 static instances corresponding to the namespace objects. Added two new strings for the predefined _OSI method: "Windows 2001.1 SP1" and "Windows 2006". Split the allocation tracking mechanism out to a separate file, from utalloc.c to uttrack.c. This mechanism appears to be only useful for application-level code. Kernels may wish to not include uttrack.c in distributions. Removed all remnants of the obsolete ACPI_REPORT_* macros and the associated code. (These macros have been replaced by the ACPI_ERROR and ACPI_WARNING macros.) Code and Data Size: These are the sizes for the acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 32-bit compiler. The values do not include any ACPI driver or OSPM code. The debug version of the code includes the debug output trace mechanism and has a much larger code and data size. Note that these values will vary depending on the efficiency of the compiler and the compiler options used during generation. Previous Release: Non-Debug Version: 81.1K Code, 17.8K Data, 98.9K Total Debug Version: 161.6K Code, 65.7K Data, 227.3K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 80.9K Code, 17.7K Data, 98.6K Total Debug Version: 158.7K Code, 64.8K Data, 223.5K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and Tools: Implemented an ANSI C version of the acpixtract utility. This version will automatically extract the DSDT and all SSDTs from the input acpidump text file and dump the binary output to separate files. It can also display a summary of the input file including the headers for each table found and will extract any single ACPI table, with any signature. (See source/tools/acpixtract) ---------------------------------------- 10 March 2006. Summary of changes for version 20060310: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Tagged all external interfaces to the subsystem with the new ACPI_EXPORT_SYMBOL macro. This macro can be defined as necessary to assist kernel integration. For Linux, the macro resolves to the EXPORT_SYMBOL macro. The default definition is NULL. Added the ACPI_THREAD_ID type for the return value from AcpiOsGetThreadId. This allows the host to define this as necessary to simplify kernel integration. The default definition is ACPI_NATIVE_UINT. Fixed two interpreter problems related to error processing, the deletion of objects, and placing invalid pointers onto the internal operator result stack. BZ 6028, 6151 (Valery Podrezov) Increased the reference count threshold where a warning is emitted for large reference counts in order to eliminate unnecessary warnings on systems with large namespaces (especially 64-bit.) Increased the value from 0x400 to 0x800. Due to universal disagreement as to the meaning of the 'c' in the calloc() function, the ACPI_MEM_CALLOCATE macro has been renamed to ACPI_ALLOCATE_ZEROED so that the purpose of the interface is 'clear'. ACPI_MEM_ALLOCATE and ACPI_MEM_FREE are renamed to ACPI_ALLOCATE and ACPI_FREE. Code and Data Size: These are the sizes for the acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 32-bit compiler. The values do not include any ACPI driver or OSPM code. The debug version of the code includes the debug output trace mechanism and has a much larger code and data size. Note that these values will vary depending on the efficiency of the compiler and the compiler options used during generation. Previous Release: Non-Debug Version: 81.0K Code, 17.8K Data, 98.8K Total Debug Version: 161.4K Code, 65.7K Data, 227.1K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 81.1K Code, 17.8K Data, 98.9K Total Debug Version: 161.6K Code, 65.7K Data, 227.3K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler: Disassembler: implemented support for symbolic resource descriptor references. If a CreateXxxxField operator references a fixed offset within a resource descriptor, a name is assigned to the descriptor and the offset is translated to the appropriate resource tag and pathname. The addition of this support brings the disassembled code very close to the original ASL source code and helps eliminate run-time errors when the disassembled code is modified (and recompiled) in such a way as to invalidate the original fixed offsets. Implemented support for a Descriptor Name as the last parameter to the ASL Register() macro. This parameter was inadvertently left out of the ACPI specification, and will be added for ACPI 3.0b. Fixed a problem where the use of the "_OSI" string (versus the full path "\_OSI") caused an internal compiler error. ("No back ptr to op") Fixed a problem with the error message that occurs when an invalid string is used for a _HID object (such as one with an embedded asterisk: "*PNP010A".) The correct message is now displayed. ---------------------------------------- 17 February 2006. Summary of changes for version 20060217: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Implemented a change to the IndexField support to match the behavior of the Microsoft AML interpreter. The value written to the Index register is now a byte offset, no longer an index based upon the width of the Data register. This should fix IndexField problems seen on some machines where the Data register is not exactly one byte wide. The ACPI specification will be clarified on this point. Fixed a problem where several resource descriptor types could overrun the internal descriptor buffer due to size miscalculation: VendorShort, VendorLong, and Interrupt. This was noticed on IA64 machines, but could affect all platforms. Fixed a problem where individual resource descriptors were misaligned within the internal buffer, causing alignment faults on IA64 platforms. Code and Data Size: These are the sizes for the acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 32-bit compiler. The values do not include any ACPI driver or OSPM code. The debug version of the code includes the debug output trace mechanism and has a much larger code and data size. Note that these values will vary depending on the efficiency of the compiler and the compiler options used during generation. Previous Release: Non-Debug Version: 81.1K Code, 17.8K Data, 98.9K Total Debug Version: 161.3K Code, 65.6K Data, 226.9K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 81.0K Code, 17.8K Data, 98.8K Total Debug Version: 161.4K Code, 65.7K Data, 227.1K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler: Implemented support for new reserved names: _WDG and _WED are Microsoft extensions for Windows Instrumentation Management, _TDL is a new ACPI-defined method (Throttling Depth Limit.) Fixed a problem where a zero-length VendorShort or VendorLong resource descriptor was incorrectly emitted as a descriptor of length one. ---------------------------------------- 10 February 2006. Summary of changes for version 20060210: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Removed a couple of extraneous ACPI_ERROR messages that appeared during normal execution. These became apparent after the conversion from ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT. Fixed a problem where the CreateField operator could hang if the BitIndex or NumBits parameter referred to a named object. (Valery Podrezov, BZ 5359) Fixed a problem where a DeRefOf operation on a buffer object incorrectly failed with an exception. This also fixes a couple of related RefOf and DeRefOf issues. (Valery Podrezov, BZ 5360/5392/5387) Fixed a problem where the AE_BUFFER_LIMIT exception was returned instead of AE_STRING_LIMIT on an out-of-bounds Index() operation. (Valery Podrezov, BZ 5480) Implemented a memory cleanup at the end of the execution of each iteration of an AML While() loop, preventing the accumulation of outstanding objects. (Valery Podrezov, BZ 5427) Eliminated a chunk of duplicate code in the object resolution code. (Valery Podrezov, BZ 5336) Fixed several warnings during the 64-bit code generation. The AcpiSrc source code conversion tool now inserts one line of whitespace after an if() statement that is followed immediately by a comment, improving readability of the Linux code. Code and Data Size: The current and previous library sizes for the core subsystem are shown below. These are the code and data sizes for the acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 32-bit compiler. These values do not include any ACPI driver or OSPM code. The debug version of the code includes the debug output trace mechanism and has a much larger code and data size. Note that these values will vary depending on the efficiency of the compiler and the compiler options used during generation. Previous Release: Non-Debug Version: 81.0K Code, 17.9K Data, 98.9K Total Debug Version: 161.3K Code, 65.7K Data, 227.0K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 81.1K Code, 17.8K Data, 98.9K Total Debug Version: 161.3K Code, 65.6K Data, 226.9K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler: Fixed a problem with the disassembly of a BankField operator with a complex expression for the BankValue parameter. ---------------------------------------- 27 January 2006. Summary of changes for version 20060127: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Implemented support in the Resource Manager to allow unresolved namestring references within resource package objects for the _PRT method. This support is in addition to the previously implemented unresolved reference support within the AML parser. If the interpreter slack mode is enabled, these unresolved references will be passed through to the caller as a NULL package entry. Implemented and deployed new macros and functions for error and warning messages across the subsystem. These macros are simpler and generate less code than their predecessors. The new macros ACPI_ERROR, ACPI_EXCEPTION, ACPI_WARNING, and ACPI_INFO replace the ACPI_REPORT_* macros. The older macros remain defined to allow ACPI drivers time to migrate to the new macros. Implemented the ACPI_CPU_FLAGS type to simplify host OS integration of the Acquire/Release Lock OSL interfaces. Fixed a problem where Alias ASL operators are sometimes not correctly resolved, in both the interpreter and the iASL compiler. Fixed several problems with the implementation of the ConcatenateResTemplate ASL operator. As per the ACPI specification, zero length buffers are now treated as a single EndTag. One-length buffers always cause a fatal exception. Non-zero length buffers that do not end with a full 2-byte EndTag cause a fatal exception. Fixed a possible structure overwrite in the AcpiGetObjectInfo external interface. (With assistance from Thomas Renninger) Code and Data Size: The current and previous library sizes for the core subsystem are shown below. These are the code and data sizes for the acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 32-bit compiler. These values do not include any ACPI driver or OSPM code. The debug version of the code includes the debug output trace mechanism and has a much larger code and data size. Note that these values will vary depending on the efficiency of the compiler and the compiler options used during generation. Previous Release: Non-Debug Version: 83.1K Code, 18.4K Data, 101.5K Total Debug Version: 163.2K Code, 66.2K Data, 229.4K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 81.0K Code, 17.9K Data, 98.9K Total Debug Version: 161.3K Code, 65.7K Data, 227.0K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler: Fixed an internal error that was generated for any forward references to ASL Alias objects. ---------------------------------------- 13 January 2006. Summary of changes for version 20060113: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Added 2006 copyright to all module headers and signons. This affects virtually every file in the ACPICA core subsystem, iASL compiler, and the utilities. Enhanced the ACPICA error reporting in order to simplify user migration to the non-debug version of ACPICA. Replaced all instances of the ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT macro invoked at the ACPI_DB_ERROR and ACPI_DB_WARN debug levels with the ACPI_REPORT_ERROR and ACPI_REPORT_WARNING macros, respectively. This preserves all error and warning messages in the non-debug version of the ACPICA code (this has been referred to as the "debug lite" option.) Over 200 cases were converted to create a total of over 380 error/warning messages across the ACPICA code. This increases the code and data size of the default non-debug version of the code somewhat (about 13K), but all error/warning reporting may be disabled if desired (and code eliminated) by specifying the ACPI_NO_ERROR_MESSAGES compile-time configuration option. The size of the debug version of ACPICA remains about the same. Fixed a memory leak within the AML Debugger "Set" command. One object was not properly deleted for every successful invocation of the command. Code and Data Size: The current and previous library sizes for the core subsystem are shown below. These are the code and data sizes for the acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 32-bit compiler. These values do not include any ACPI driver or OSPM code. The debug version of the code includes the debug output trace mechanism and has a much larger code and data size. Note that these values will vary depending on the efficiency of the compiler and the compiler options used during generation. Previous Release: Non-Debug Version: 76.6K Code, 12.3K Data, 88.9K Total Debug Version: 163.7K Code, 67.5K Data, 231.2K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 83.1K Code, 18.4K Data, 101.5K Total Debug Version: 163.2K Code, 66.2K Data, 229.4K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler: The compiler now officially supports the ACPI 3.0a specification that was released on December 30, 2005. (Specification is available at www.acpi.info) ---------------------------------------- 16 December 2005. Summary of changes for version 20051216: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Implemented optional support to allow unresolved names within ASL Package objects. A null object is inserted in the package when a named reference cannot be located in the current namespace. Enabled via the interpreter slack flag, this should eliminate AE_NOT_FOUND exceptions seen on machines that contain such code. Implemented an optimization to the initialization sequence that can improve boot time. During ACPI device initialization, the _STA method is now run if and only if the _INI method exists. The _STA method is used to determine if the device is present; An _INI can only be run if _STA returns present, but it is a waste of time to run the _STA method if the _INI does not exist. (Prototype and assistance from Dong Wei) Implemented use of the C99 uintptr_t for the pointer casting macros if it is available in the current compiler. Otherwise, the default (void *) cast is used as before. Fixed some possible memory leaks found within the execution path of the Break, Continue, If, and CreateField operators. (Valery Podrezov) Fixed a problem introduced in the 20051202 release where an exception is generated during method execution if a control method attempts to declare another method. Moved resource descriptor string constants that are used by both the AML disassembler and AML debugger to the common utilities directory so that these components are independent. Implemented support in the AcpiExec utility (-e switch) to globally ignore exceptions during control method execution (method is not aborted.) Added the rsinfo.c source file to the AcpiExec makefile for Linux/Unix generation. Code and Data Size: The current and previous library sizes for the core subsystem are shown below. These are the code and data sizes for the acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 32-bit compiler. These values do not include any ACPI driver or OSPM code. The debug version of the code includes the debug output trace mechanism and has a much larger code and data size. Note that these values will vary depending on the efficiency of the compiler and the compiler options used during generation. Previous Release: Non-Debug Version: 76.3K Code, 12.3K Data, 88.6K Total Debug Version: 163.2K Code, 67.4K Data, 230.6K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 76.6K Code, 12.3K Data, 88.9K Total Debug Version: 163.7K Code, 67.5K Data, 231.2K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler: Fixed a problem where a CPU stack overflow fault could occur if a recursive method call was made from within a Return statement. ---------------------------------------- 02 December 2005. Summary of changes for version 20051202: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Modified the parsing of control methods to no longer create namespace objects during the first pass of the parse. Objects are now created only during the execute phase, at the moment the namespace creation operator is encountered in the AML (Name, OperationRegion, CreateByteField, etc.) This should eliminate ALREADY_EXISTS exceptions seen on some machines where reentrant control methods are protected by an AML mutex. The mutex will now correctly block multiple threads from attempting to create the same object more than once. Increased the number of available Owner Ids for namespace object tracking from 32 to 255. This should eliminate the OWNER_ID_LIMIT exceptions seen on some machines with a large number of ACPI tables (either static or dynamic). Fixed a problem with the AcpiExec utility where a fault could occur when the -b switch (batch mode) is used. Enhanced the namespace dump routine to output the owner ID for each namespace object. Code and Data Size: The current and previous library sizes for the core subsystem are shown below. These are the code and data sizes for the acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 32-bit compiler. These values do not include any ACPI driver or OSPM code. The debug version of the code includes the debug output trace mechanism and has a much larger code and data size. Note that these values will vary depending on the efficiency of the compiler and the compiler options used during generation. Previous Release: Non-Debug Version: 76.3K Code, 12.3K Data, 88.6K Total Debug Version: 163.0K Code, 67.4K Data, 230.4K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 76.3K Code, 12.3K Data, 88.6K Total Debug Version: 163.2K Code, 67.4K Data, 230.6K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler: Fixed a parse error during compilation of certain Switch/Case constructs. To simplify the parse, the grammar now allows for multiple Default statements and this error is now detected and flagged during the analysis phase. Disassembler: The disassembly now includes the contents of the original table header within a comment at the start of the file. This includes the name and version of the original ASL compiler. ---------------------------------------- 17 November 2005. Summary of changes for version 20051117: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Fixed a problem in the AML parser where the method thread count could be decremented below zero if any errors occurred during the method parse phase. This should eliminate AE_AML_METHOD_LIMIT exceptions seen on some machines. This also fixed a related regression with the mechanism that detects and corrects methods that cannot properly handle reentrancy (related to the deployment of the new OwnerId mechanism.) Eliminated the pre-parsing of control methods (to detect errors) during table load. Related to the problem above, this was causing unwind issues if any errors occurred during the parse, and it seemed to be overkill. A table load should not be aborted if there are problems with any single control method, thus rendering this feature rather pointless. Fixed a problem with the new table-driven resource manager where an internal buffer overflow could occur for small resource templates. Implemented a new external interface, AcpiGetVendorResource. This interface will find and return a vendor-defined resource descriptor within a _CRS or _PRS method via an ACPI 3.0 UUID match. With assistance from Bjorn Helgaas. Removed the length limit (200) on string objects as per the upcoming ACPI 3.0A specification. This affects the following areas of the interpreter: 1) any implicit conversion of a Buffer to a String, 2) a String object result of the ASL Concatentate operator, 3) the String object result of the ASL ToString operator. Fixed a problem in the Windows OS interface layer (OSL) where a WAIT_FOREVER on a semaphore object would incorrectly timeout. This allows the multithreading features of the AcpiExec utility to work properly under Windows. Updated the Linux makefiles for the iASL compiler and AcpiExec to include the recently added file named "utresrc.c". Code and Data Size: The current and previous library sizes for the core subsystem are shown below. These are the code and data sizes for the acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 32-bit compiler. These values do not include any ACPI driver or OSPM code. The debug version of the code includes the debug output trace mechanism and has a much larger code and data size. Note that these values will vary depending on the efficiency of the compiler and the compiler options used during generation. Previous Release: Non-Debug Version: 76.2K Code, 12.3K Data, 88.5K Total Debug Version: 163.0K Code, 67.4K Data, 230.4K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 76.3K Code, 12.3K Data, 88.6K Total Debug Version: 163.0K Code, 67.4K Data, 230.4K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler: Removed the limit (200) on string objects as per the upcoming ACPI 3.0A specification. For the iASL compiler, this means that string literals within the source ASL can be of any length. Enhanced the listing output to dump the AML code for resource descriptors immediately after the ASL code for each descriptor, instead of in a block at the end of the entire resource template. Enhanced the compiler debug output to dump the entire original parse tree constructed during the parse phase, before any transforms are applied to the tree. The transformed tree is dumped also. ---------------------------------------- 02 November 2005. Summary of changes for version 20051102: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Modified the subsystem initialization sequence to improve GPE support. The GPE initialization has been split into two parts in order to defer execution of the _PRW methods (Power Resources for Wake) until after the hardware is fully initialized and the SCI handler is installed. This allows the _PRW methods to access fields protected by the Global Lock. This will fix systems where a NO_GLOBAL_LOCK exception has been seen during initialization. Converted the ACPI internal object disassemble and display code within the AML debugger to fully table-driven operation, reducing code size and increasing maintainability. Fixed a regression with the ConcatenateResTemplate() ASL operator introduced in the 20051021 release. Implemented support for "local" internal ACPI object types within the debugger "Object" command and the AcpiWalkNamespace external interfaces. These local types include RegionFields, BankFields, IndexFields, Alias, and reference objects. Moved common AML resource handling code into a new file, "utresrc.c". This code is shared by both the Resource Manager and the AML Debugger. Code and Data Size: The current and previous library sizes for the core subsystem are shown below. These are the code and data sizes for the acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 32-bit compiler. These values do not include any ACPI driver or OSPM code. The debug version of the code includes the debug output trace mechanism and has a much larger code and data size. Note that these values will vary depending on the efficiency of the compiler and the compiler options used during generation. Previous Release: Non-Debug Version: 76.1K Code, 12.2K Data, 88.3K Total Debug Version: 163.5K Code, 67.0K Data, 230.5K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 76.2K Code, 12.3K Data, 88.5K Total Debug Version: 163.0K Code, 67.4K Data, 230.4K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler: Fixed a problem with very large initializer lists (more than 4000 elements) for both Buffer and Package objects where the parse stack could overflow. Enhanced the pre-compile source code scan for non-ASCII characters to ignore characters within comment fields. The scan is now always performed and is no longer optional, detecting invalid characters within a source file immediately rather than during the parse phase or later. Enhanced the ASL grammar definition to force early reductions on all list-style grammar elements so that the overall parse stack usage is greatly reduced. This should improve performance and reduce the possibility of parse stack overflow. Eliminated all reduce/reduce conflicts in the iASL parser generation. Also, with the addition of a %expected statement, the compiler generates from source with no warnings. Fixed a possible segment fault in the disassembler if the input filename does not contain a "dot" extension (Thomas Renninger). ---------------------------------------- 21 October 2005. Summary of changes for version 20051021: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Implemented support for the EM64T and other x86-64 processors. This essentially entails recognizing that these processors support non-aligned memory transfers. Previously, all 64-bit processors were assumed to lack hardware support for non-aligned transfers. Completed conversion of the Resource Manager to nearly full table-driven operation. Specifically, the resource conversion code (convert AML to internal format and the reverse) and the debug code to dump internal resource descriptors are fully table-driven, reducing code and data size and improving maintainability. The OSL interfaces for Acquire and Release Lock now use a 64-bit flag word on 64-bit processors instead of a fixed 32-bit word. (With assistance from Alexey Starikovskiy) Implemented support within the resource conversion code for the Type-Specific byte within the various ACPI 3.0 *WordSpace macros. Fixed some issues within the resource conversion code for the type-specific flags for both Memory and I/O address resource descriptors. For Memory, implemented support for the MTP and TTP flags. For I/O, split the TRS and TTP flags into two separate fields. Code and Data Size: The current and previous library sizes for the core subsystem are shown below. These are the code and data sizes for the acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 32-bit compiler. These values do not include any ACPI driver or OSPM code. The debug version of the code includes the debug output trace mechanism and has a much larger code and data size. Note that these values will vary depending on the efficiency of the compiler and the compiler options used during generation. Previous Release: Non-Debug Version: 77.1K Code, 12.1K Data, 89.2K Total Debug Version: 168.0K Code, 68.3K Data, 236.3K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 76.1K Code, 12.2K Data, 88.3K Total Debug Version: 163.5K Code, 67.0K Data, 230.5K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler: Relaxed a compiler restriction that disallowed a ResourceIndex byte if the corresponding ResourceSource string was not also present in a resource descriptor declaration. This restriction caused problems with existing AML/ASL code that includes the Index byte without the string. When such AML was disassembled, it could not be compiled without modification. Further, the modified code created a resource template with a different size than the original, breaking code that used fixed offsets into the resource template buffer. Removed a recent feature of the disassembler to ignore a lone ResourceIndex byte. This byte is now emitted if present so that the exact AML can be reproduced when the disassembled code is recompiled. Improved comments and text alignment for the resource descriptor code emitted by the disassembler. Implemented disassembler support for the ACPI 3.0 AccessSize field within a Register() resource descriptor. ---------------------------------------- 30 September 2005. Summary of changes for version 20050930: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Completed a major overhaul of the Resource Manager code - specifically, optimizations in the area of the AML/internal resource conversion code. The code has been optimized to simplify and eliminate duplicated code, CPU stack use has been decreased by optimizing function parameters and local variables, and naming conventions across the manager have been standardized for clarity and ease of maintenance (this includes function, parameter, variable, and struct/typedef names.) The update may force changes in some driver code, depending on how resources are handled by the host OS. All Resource Manager dispatch and information tables have been moved to a single location for clarity and ease of maintenance. One new file was created, named "rsinfo.c". The ACPI return macros (return_ACPI_STATUS, etc.) have been modified to guarantee that the argument is not evaluated twice, making them less prone to macro side-effects. However, since there exists the possibility of additional stack use if a particular compiler cannot optimize them (such as in the debug generation case), the original macros are optionally available. Note that some invocations of the return_VALUE macro may now cause size mismatch warnings; the return_UINT8 and return_UINT32 macros are provided to eliminate these. (From Randy Dunlap) Implemented a new mechanism to enable debug tracing for individual control methods. A new external interface, AcpiDebugTrace, is provided to enable this mechanism. The intent is to allow the host OS to easily enable and disable tracing for problematic control methods. This interface can be easily exposed to a user or debugger interface if desired. See the file psxface.c for details. AcpiUtCallocate will now return a valid pointer if a length of zero is specified - a length of one is used and a warning is issued. This matches the behavior of AcpiUtAllocate. Code and Data Size: The current and previous library sizes for the core subsystem are shown below. These are the code and data sizes for the acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 32-bit compiler. These values do not include any ACPI driver or OSPM code. The debug version of the code includes the debug output trace mechanism and has a much larger code and data size. Note that these values will vary depending on the efficiency of the compiler and the compiler options used during generation. Previous Release: Non-Debug Version: 77.5K Code, 12.0K Data, 89.5K Total Debug Version: 168.1K Code, 68.4K Data, 236.5K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 77.1K Code, 12.1K Data, 89.2K Total Debug Version: 168.0K Code, 68.3K Data, 236.3K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler: A remark is issued if the effective compile-time length of a package or buffer is zero. Previously, this was a warning. ---------------------------------------- 16 September 2005. Summary of changes for version 20050916: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Fixed a problem within the Resource Manager where support for the Generic Register descriptor was not fully implemented. This descriptor is now fully recognized, parsed, disassembled, and displayed. Completely restructured the Resource Manager code to utilize table-driven dispatch and lookup, eliminating many of the large switch() statements. This reduces overall subsystem code size and code complexity. Affects the resource parsing and construction, disassembly, and debug dump output. Cleaned up and restructured the debug dump output for all resource descriptors. Improved readability of the output and reduced code size. Fixed a problem where changes to internal data structures caused the optional ACPI_MUTEX_DEBUG code to fail compilation if specified. Code and Data Size: The current and previous library sizes for the core subsystem are shown below. These are the code and data sizes for the acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 32-bit compiler. These values do not include any ACPI driver or OSPM code. The debug version of the code includes the debug output trace mechanism and has a much larger code and data size. Note that these values will vary depending on the efficiency of the compiler and the compiler options used during generation. Previous Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.4K Code, 11.8K Data, 90.2K Total Debug Version: 169.6K Code, 69.9K Data, 239.5K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 77.5K Code, 12.0K Data, 89.5K Total Debug Version: 168.1K Code, 68.4K Data, 236.5K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler: Updated the disassembler to automatically insert an EndDependentFn() macro into the ASL stream if this macro is missing in the original AML code, simplifying compilation of the resulting ASL module. Fixed a problem in the disassembler where a disassembled ResourceSource string (within a large resource descriptor) was not surrounded by quotes and not followed by a comma, causing errors when the resulting ASL module was compiled. Also, escape sequences within a ResourceSource string are now handled correctly (especially "\\") ---------------------------------------- 02 September 2005. Summary of changes for version 20050902: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Fixed a problem with the internal Owner ID allocation and deallocation mechanisms for control method execution and recursive method invocation. This should eliminate the OWNER_ID_LIMIT exceptions and "Invalid OwnerId" messages seen on some systems. Recursive method invocation depth is currently limited to 255. (Alexey Starikovskiy) Completely eliminated all vestiges of support for the "module-level executable code" until this support is fully implemented and debugged. This should eliminate the NO_RETURN_VALUE exceptions seen during table load on some systems that invoke this support. Fixed a problem within the resource manager code where the transaction flags for a 64-bit address descriptor were handled incorrectly in the type-specific flag byte. Consolidated duplicate code within the address descriptor resource manager code, reducing overall subsystem code size. Fixed a fault when using the AML debugger "disassemble" command to disassemble individual control methods. Removed references to the "release_current" directory within the Unix release package. Code and Data Size: The current and previous core subsystem library sizes are shown below. These are the code and data sizes for the acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 compiler. These values do not include any ACPI driver or OSPM code. The debug version of the code includes the debug output trace mechanism and has a much larger code and data size. Note that these values will vary depending on the efficiency of the compiler and the compiler options used during generation. Previous Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.6K Code, 11.7K Data, 90.3K Total Debug Version: 170.0K Code, 69.9K Data, 239.9K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.4K Code, 11.8K Data, 90.2K Total Debug Version: 169.6K Code, 69.9K Data, 239.5K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler: Implemented an error check for illegal duplicate values in the interrupt and dma lists for the following ASL macros: Dma(), Irq(), IrqNoFlags(), and Interrupt(). Implemented error checking for the Irq() and IrqNoFlags() macros to detect too many values in the interrupt list (16 max) and invalid values in the list (range 0 - 15) The maximum length string literal within an ASL file is now restricted to 200 characters as per the ACPI specification. Fixed a fault when using the -ln option (generate namespace listing). Implemented an error check to determine if a DescriptorName within a resource descriptor has already been used within the current scope. ---------------------------------------- 15 August 2005.  Summary of changes for version 20050815:   1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem:   Implemented a full bytewise compare to determine if a table load request is attempting to load a duplicate table. The compare is performed if the table signatures and table lengths match. This will allow different tables with the same OEM Table ID and revision to be loaded – probably against the ACPI specification, but discovered in the field nonetheless.   Added the changes.txt logfile to each of the zipped release packages.   Code and Data Size: Current and previous core subsystem library sizes are shown below. These are the code and data sizes for the acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 compiler, and these values do not include any ACPI driver or OSPM code. The debug version of the code includes the debug output trace mechanism and has a much larger code and data size. Note that these values will vary depending on the efficiency of the compiler and the compiler options used during generation.     Previous Release:     Non-Debug Version:  78.6K Code, 11.7K Data,  90.3K Total     Debug Version:     167.0K Code, 69.9K Data, 236.9K Total   Current Release:     Non-Debug Version:  78.6K Code, 11.7K Data,  90.3K Total     Debug Version:     170.0K Code, 69.9K Data, 239.9K Total     2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler:   Fixed a problem where incorrect AML code could be generated for Package objects if optimization is disabled (via the –oa switch).   Fixed a problem with where incorrect AML code is generated for variable-length packages when the package length is not specified and the number of initializer values is greater than 255.   ---------------------------------------- 29 July 2005. Summary of changes for version 20050729: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Implemented support to ignore an attempt to install/load a particular ACPI table more than once. Apparently there exists BIOS code that repeatedly attempts to load the same SSDT upon certain events. With assistance from Venkatesh Pallipadi. Restructured the main interface to the AML parser in order to correctly handle all exceptional conditions. This will prevent leakage of the OwnerId resource and should eliminate the AE_OWNER_ID_LIMIT exceptions seen on some machines. With assistance from Alexey Starikovskiy. Support for "module level code" has been disabled in this version due to a number of issues that have appeared on various machines. The support can be enabled by defining ACPI_ENABLE_MODULE_LEVEL_CODE during subsystem compilation. When the issues are fully resolved, the code will be enabled by default again. Modified the internal functions for debug print support to define the FunctionName parameter as a (const char *) for compatibility with compiler built-in macros such as __FUNCTION__, etc. Linted the entire ACPICA source tree for both 32-bit and 64-bit. Implemented support to display an object count summary for the AML Debugger commands Object and Methods. Code and Data Size: Current and previous core subsystem library sizes are shown below. These are the code and data sizes for the acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 compiler, and these values do not include any ACPI driver or OSPM code. The debug version of the code includes the debug output trace mechanism and has a much larger code and data size. Note that these values will vary depending on the efficiency of the compiler and the compiler options used during generation. Previous Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.6K Code, 11.6K Data, 90.2K Total Debug Version: 170.0K Code, 69.7K Data, 239.7K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.6K Code, 11.7K Data, 90.3K Total Debug Version: 167.0K Code, 69.9K Data, 236.9K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler: Fixed a regression that appeared in the 20050708 version of the compiler where an error message was inadvertently emitted for invocations of the _OSI reserved control method. ---------------------------------------- 08 July 2005. Summary of changes for version 20050708: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: The use of the CPU stack in the debug version of the subsystem has been considerably reduced. Previously, a debug structure was declared in every function that used the debug macros. This structure has been removed in favor of declaring the individual elements as parameters to the debug functions. This reduces the cumulative stack use during nested execution of ACPI function calls at the cost of a small increase in the code size of the debug version of the subsystem. With assistance from Alexey Starikovskiy and Len Brown. Added the ACPI_GET_FUNCTION_NAME macro to enable the compiler-dependent headers to define a macro that will return the current function name at runtime (such as __FUNCTION__ or _func_, etc.) The function name is used by the debug trace output. If ACPI_GET_FUNCTION_NAME is not defined in the compiler-dependent header, the function name is saved on the CPU stack (one pointer per function.) This mechanism is used because apparently there exists no standard ANSI-C defined macro that that returns the function name. Redesigned and reimplemented the "Owner ID" mechanism used to track namespace objects created/deleted by ACPI tables and control method execution. A bitmap is now used to allocate and free the IDs, thus solving the wraparound problem present in the previous implementation. The size of the namespace node descriptor was reduced by 2 bytes as a result (Alexey Starikovskiy). Removed the UINT32_BIT and UINT16_BIT types that were used for the bitfield flag definitions within the headers for the predefined ACPI tables. These have been replaced by UINT8_BIT in order to increase the code portability of the subsystem. If the use of UINT8 remains a problem, we may be forced to eliminate bitfields entirely because of a lack of portability. Enhanced the performance of the AcpiUtUpdateObjectReference procedure. This is a frequently used function and this improvement increases the performance of the entire subsystem (Alexey Starikovskiy). Fixed several possible memory leaks and the inverse - premature object deletion (Alexey Starikovskiy). Code and Data Size: Current and previous core subsystem library sizes are shown below. These are the code and data sizes for the acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 compiler, and these values do not include any ACPI driver or OSPM code. The debug version of the code includes the debug output trace mechanism and has a much larger code and data size. Note that these values will vary depending on the efficiency of the compiler and the compiler options used during generation. Previous Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.6K Code, 11.5K Data, 90.1K Total Debug Version: 165.2K Code, 69.6K Data, 234.8K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.6K Code, 11.6K Data, 90.2K Total Debug Version: 170.0K Code, 69.7K Data, 239.7K Total ---------------------------------------- 24 June 2005. Summary of changes for version 20050624: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Modified the new OSL cache interfaces to use ACPI_CACHE_T as the type for the host-defined cache object. This allows the OSL implementation to define and type this object in any manner desired, simplifying the OSL implementation. For example, ACPI_CACHE_T is defined as kmem_cache_t for Linux, and should be defined in the OS-specific header file for other operating systems as required. Changed the interface to AcpiOsAcquireObject to directly return the requested object as the function return (instead of ACPI_STATUS.) This change was made for performance reasons, since this is the purpose of the interface in the first place. AcpiOsAcquireObject is now similar to the AcpiOsAllocate interface. Implemented a new AML debugger command named Businfo. This command displays information about all devices that have an associate _PRT object. The _ADR, _HID, _UID, and _CID are displayed for these devices. Modified the initialization sequence in AcpiInitializeSubsystem to call the OSL interface AcpiOslInitialize first, before any local initialization. This change was required because the global initialization now calls OSL interfaces. Enhanced the Dump command to display the entire contents of Package objects (including all sub-objects and their values.) Restructured the code base to split some files because of size and/or because the code logically belonged in a separate file. New files are listed below. All makefiles and project files included in the ACPI CA release have been updated. utilities/utcache.c /* Local cache interfaces */ utilities/utmutex.c /* Local mutex support */ utilities/utstate.c /* State object support */ interpreter/parser/psloop.c /* Main AML parse loop */ Code and Data Size: Current and previous core subsystem library sizes are shown below. These are the code and data sizes for the acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 compiler, and these values do not include any ACPI driver or OSPM code. The debug version of the code includes the debug output trace mechanism and has a much larger code and data size. Note that these values will vary depending on the efficiency of the compiler and the compiler options used during generation. Previous Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.3K Code, 11.6K Data, 89.9K Total Debug Version: 164.0K Code, 69.1K Data, 233.1K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.6K Code, 11.5K Data, 90.1K Total Debug Version: 165.2K Code, 69.6K Data, 234.8K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler: Fixed a regression introduced in version 20050513 where the use of a Package object within a Case() statement caused a compile time exception. The original behavior has been restored (a Match() operator is emitted.) ---------------------------------------- 17 June 2005. Summary of changes for version 20050617: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Moved the object cache operations into the OS interface layer (OSL) to allow the host OS to handle these operations if desired (for example, the Linux OSL will invoke the slab allocator). This support is optional; the compile time define ACPI_USE_LOCAL_CACHE may be used to utilize the original cache code in the ACPI CA core. The new OSL interfaces are shown below. See utalloc.c for an example implementation, and acpiosxf.h for the exact interface definitions. With assistance from Alexey Starikovskiy. AcpiOsCreateCache AcpiOsDeleteCache AcpiOsPurgeCache AcpiOsAcquireObject AcpiOsReleaseObject Modified the interfaces to AcpiOsAcquireLock and AcpiOsReleaseLock to return and restore a flags parameter. This fits better with many OS lock models. Note: the current execution state (interrupt handler or not) is no longer passed to these interfaces. If necessary, the OSL must determine this state by itself, a simple and fast operation. With assistance from Alexey Starikovskiy. Fixed a problem in the ACPI table handling where a valid XSDT was assumed present if the revision of the RSDP was 2 or greater. According to the ACPI specification, the XSDT is optional in all cases, and the table manager therefore now checks for both an RSDP >=2 and a valid XSDT pointer. Otherwise, the RSDT pointer is used. Some ACPI 2.0 compliant BIOSs contain only the RSDT. Fixed an interpreter problem with the Mid() operator in the case of an input string where the resulting output string is of zero length. It now correctly returns a valid, null terminated string object instead of a string object with a null pointer. Fixed a problem with the control method argument handling to allow a store to an Arg object that already contains an object of type Device. The Device object is now correctly overwritten. Previously, an error was returned. Enhanced the debugger Find command to emit object values in addition to the found object pathnames. The output format is the same as the dump namespace command. Enhanced the debugger Set command. It now has the ability to set the value of any Named integer object in the namespace (Previously, only method locals and args could be set.) Code and Data Size: Current and previous core subsystem library sizes are shown below. These are the code and data sizes for the acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 compiler, and these values do not include any ACPI driver or OSPM code. The debug version of the code includes the debug output trace mechanism and has a much larger code and data size. Note that these values will vary depending on the efficiency of the compiler and the compiler options used during generation. Previous Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.1K Code, 11.6K Data, 89.7K Total Debug Version: 164.0K Code, 69.3K Data, 233.3K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.3K Code, 11.6K Data, 89.9K Total Debug Version: 164.0K Code, 69.1K Data, 233.1K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler: Fixed a regression in the disassembler where if/else/while constructs were output incorrectly. This problem was introduced in the previous release (20050526). This problem also affected the single-step disassembly in the debugger. Fixed a problem where compiling the reserved _OSI method would randomly (but rarely) produce compile errors. Enhanced the disassembler to emit compilable code in the face of incorrect AML resource descriptors. If the optional ResourceSourceIndex is present, but the ResourceSource is not, do not emit the ResourceSourceIndex in the disassembly. Otherwise, the resulting code cannot be compiled without errors. ---------------------------------------- 26 May 2005. Summary of changes for version 20050526: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Implemented support to execute Type 1 and Type 2 AML opcodes appearing at the module level (not within a control method.) These opcodes are executed exactly once at the time the table is loaded. This type of code was legal up until the release of ACPI 2.0B (2002) and is now supported within ACPI CA in order to provide backwards compatibility with earlier BIOS implementations. This eliminates the "Encountered executable code at module level" warning that was previously generated upon detection of such code. Fixed a problem in the interpreter where an AE_NOT_FOUND exception could inadvertently be generated during the lookup of namespace objects in the second pass parse of ACPI tables and control methods. It appears that this problem could occur during the resolution of forward references to namespace objects. Added the ACPI_MUTEX_DEBUG #ifdef to the AcpiUtReleaseMutex function, corresponding to the same #ifdef in the AcpiUtAcquireMutex function. This allows the deadlock detection debug code to be compiled out in the normal case, improving mutex performance (and overall subsystem performance) considerably. Implemented a handful of miscellaneous fixes for possible memory leaks on error conditions and error handling control paths. These fixes were suggested by FreeBSD and the Coverity Prevent source code analysis tool. Added a check for a null RSDT pointer in AcpiGetFirmwareTable (tbxfroot.c) to prevent a fault in this error case. Code and Data Size: Current and previous core subsystem library sizes are shown below. These are the code and data sizes for the acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 compiler, and these values do not include any ACPI driver or OSPM code. The debug version of the code includes the debug output trace mechanism and has a much larger code and data size. Note that these values will vary depending on the efficiency of the compiler and the compiler options used during generation. Previous Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.2K Code, 11.6K Data, 89.8K Total Debug Version: 163.7K Code, 69.3K Data, 233.0K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.1K Code, 11.6K Data, 89.7K Total Debug Version: 164.0K Code, 69.3K Data, 233.3K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler: Implemented support to allow Type 1 and Type 2 ASL operators to appear at the module level (not within a control method.) These operators will be executed once at the time the table is loaded. This type of code was legal up until the release of ACPI 2.0B (2002) and is now supported by the iASL compiler in order to provide backwards compatibility with earlier BIOS ASL code. The ACPI integer width (specified via the table revision ID or the -r override, 32 or 64 bits) is now used internally during compile-time constant folding to ensure that constants are truncated to 32 bits if necessary. Previously, the revision ID value was only emitted in the AML table header. An error message is now generated for the Mutex and Method operators if the SyncLevel parameter is outside the legal range of 0 through 15. Fixed a problem with the Method operator ParameterTypes list handling (ACPI 3.0). Previously, more than 2 types or 2 arguments generated a syntax error. The actual underlying implementation of method argument typechecking is still under development, however. ---------------------------------------- 13 May 2005. Summary of changes for version 20050513: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Implemented support for PCI Express root bridges -- added support for device PNP0A08 in the root bridge search within AcpiEvPciConfigRegionSetup. The interpreter now automatically truncates incoming 64-bit constants to 32 bits if currently executing out of a 32-bit ACPI table (Revision < 2). This also affects the iASL compiler constant folding. (Note: as per below, the iASL compiler no longer allows 64-bit constants within 32-bit tables.) Fixed a problem where string and buffer objects with "static" pointers (pointers to initialization data within an ACPI table) were not handled consistently. The internal object copy operation now always copies the data to a newly allocated buffer, regardless of whether the source object is static or not. Fixed a problem with the FromBCD operator where an implicit result conversion was improperly performed while storing the result to the target operand. Since this is an "explicit conversion" operator, the implicit conversion should never be performed on the output. Fixed a problem with the CopyObject operator where a copy to an existing named object did not always completely overwrite the existing object stored at name. Specifically, a buffer-to-buffer copy did not delete the existing buffer. Replaced "InterruptLevel" with "InterruptNumber" in all GPE interfaces and structs for consistency. Code and Data Size: Current and previous core subsystem library sizes are shown below. These are the code and data sizes for the acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 compiler, and these values do not include any ACPI driver or OSPM code. The debug version of the code includes the debug output trace mechanism and has a much larger code and data size. Note that these values will vary depending on the efficiency of the compiler and the compiler options used during generation. Previous Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.2K Code, 11.6K Data, 89.8K Total Debug Version: 163.7K Code, 69.3K Data, 233.0K Total Current Release: (Same sizes) Non-Debug Version: 78.2K Code, 11.6K Data, 89.8K Total Debug Version: 163.7K Code, 69.3K Data, 233.0K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler: The compiler now emits a warning if an attempt is made to generate a 64-bit integer constant from within a 32-bit ACPI table (Revision < 2). The integer is truncated to 32 bits. Fixed a problem with large package objects: if the static length of the package is greater than 255, the "variable length package" opcode is emitted. Previously, this caused an error. This requires an update to the ACPI spec, since it currently (incorrectly) states that packages larger than 255 elements are not allowed. The disassembler now correctly handles variable length packages and packages larger than 255 elements. ---------------------------------------- 08 April 2005. Summary of changes for version 20050408: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Fixed three cases in the interpreter where an “index” argument to an ASL function was still (internally) 32 bits instead of the required 64 bits. This was the Index argument to the Index, Mid, and Match operators. The “strupr” function is now permanently local (AcpiUtStrupr), since this is not a POSIX-defined function and not present in most kernel-level C libraries. All references to the C library strupr function have been removed from the headers. Completed the deployment of static functions/prototypes. All prototypes with the static attribute have been moved from the headers to the owning C file. Implemented an extract option (-e) for the AcpiBin utility (AML binary utility). This option allows the utility to extract individual ACPI tables from the output of AcpiDmp. It provides the same functionality of the acpixtract.pl perl script without the worry of setting the correct perl options. AcpiBin runs on Windows and has not yet been generated/validated in the Linux/Unix environment (but should be soon). Updated and fixed the table dump option for AcpiBin (-d). This option converts a single ACPI table to a hex/ascii file, similar to the output of AcpiDmp. Code and Data Size: Current and previous core subsystem library sizes are shown below. These are the code and data sizes for the acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 compiler, and these values do not include any ACPI driver or OSPM code. The debug version of the code includes the debug output trace mechanism and has a much larger code and data size. Note that these values will vary depending on the efficiency of the compiler and the compiler options used during generation. Previous Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.0K Code, 11.6K Data, 89.6K Total Debug Version: 163.5K Code, 69.3K Data, 232.8K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.2K Code, 11.6K Data, 89.8K Total Debug Version: 163.7K Code, 69.3K Data, 233.0K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler: Disassembler fix: Added a check to ensure that the table length found in the ACPI table header within the input file is not longer than the actual input file size. This indicates some kind of file or table corruption. ---------------------------------------- 29 March 2005. Summary of changes for version 20050329: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: An error is now generated if an attempt is made to create a Buffer Field of length zero (A CreateField with a length operand of zero.) The interpreter now issues a warning whenever executable code at the module level is detected during ACPI table load. This will give some idea of the prevalence of this type of code. Implemented support for references to named objects (other than control methods) within package objects. Enhanced package object output for the debug object. Package objects are now completely dumped, showing all elements. Enhanced miscellaneous object output for the debug object. Any object can now be written to the debug object (for example, a device object can be written, and the type of the object will be displayed.) The "static" qualifier has been added to all local functions across both the core subsystem and the iASL compiler. The number of "long" lines (> 80 chars) within the source has been significantly reduced, by about 1/3. Cleaned up all header files to ensure that all CA/iASL functions are prototyped (even static functions) and the formatting is consistent. Two new header files have been added, acopcode.h and acnames.h. Removed several obsolete functions that were no longer used. Code and Data Size: Current and previous core subsystem library sizes are shown below. These are the code and data sizes for the acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 compiler, and these values do not include any ACPI driver or OSPM code. The debug version of the code includes the debug output trace mechanism and has a much larger code and data size. Note that these values will vary depending on the efficiency of the compiler and the compiler options used during generation. Previous Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.3K Code, 11.5K Data, 89.8K Total Debug Version: 165.4K Code, 69.7K Data, 236.1K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.0K Code, 11.6K Data, 89.6K Total Debug Version: 163.5K Code, 69.3K Data, 232.8K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler: Fixed a problem with the resource descriptor generation/support. For the ResourceSourceIndex and the ResourceSource fields, both must be present, or both must be not present - can't have one without the other. The compiler now returns non-zero from the main procedure if any errors have occurred during the compilation. ---------------------------------------- 09 March 2005. Summary of changes for version 20050309: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: The string-to-buffer implicit conversion code has been modified again after a change to the ACPI specification. In order to match the behavior of the other major ACPI implementation, the target buffer is no longer truncated if the source string is smaller than an existing target buffer. This change requires an update to the ACPI spec, and should eliminate the recent AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT issues. The "implicit return" support was rewritten to a new algorithm that solves the general case. Rather than attempt to determine when a method is about to exit, the result of every ASL operator is saved momentarily until the very next ASL operator is executed. Therefore, no matter how the method exits, there will always be a saved implicit return value. This feature is only enabled with the AcpiGbl_EnableInterpreterSlack flag, and should eliminate AE_AML_NO_RETURN_VALUE errors when enabled. Implemented implicit conversion support for the predicate (operand) of the If, Else, and While operators. String and Buffer arguments are automatically converted to Integers. Changed the string-to-integer conversion behavior to match the new ACPI errata: "If no integer object exists, a new integer is created. The ASCII string is interpreted as a hexadecimal constant. Each string character is interpreted as a hexadecimal value (‘0’-‘9’, ‘A’-‘F’, ‘a’, ‘f’), starting with the first character as the most significant digit, and ending with the first non-hexadecimal character or end-of-string." This means that the first non-hex character terminates the conversion and this is the code that was changed. Fixed a problem where the ObjectType operator would fail (fault) when used on an Index of a Package which pointed to a null package element. The operator now properly returns zero (Uninitialized) in this case. Fixed a problem where the While operator used excessive memory by not properly popping the result stack during execution. There was no memory leak after execution, however. (Code provided by Valery Podrezov.) Fixed a problem where references to control methods within Package objects caused the method to be invoked, instead of producing a reference object pointing to the method. Restructured and simplified the pswalk.c module (AcpiPsDeleteParseTree) to improve performance and reduce code size. (Code provided by Alexey Starikovskiy.) Code and Data Size: Current and previous core subsystem library sizes are shown below. These are the code and data sizes for the acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 compiler, and these values do not include any ACPI driver or OSPM code. The debug version of the code includes the debug output trace mechanism and has a much larger code and data size. Note that these values will vary depending on the efficiency of the compiler and the compiler options used during generation. Previous Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.3K Code, 11.5K Data, 89.8K Total Debug Version: 165.4K Code, 69.6K Data, 236.0K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.3K Code, 11.5K Data, 89.8K Total Debug Version: 165.4K Code, 69.7K Data, 236.1K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler: Fixed a problem with the Return operator with no arguments. Since the AML grammar for the byte encoding requires an operand for the Return opcode, the compiler now emits a Return(Zero) for this case. An ACPI specification update has been written for this case. For tables other than the DSDT, namepath optimization is automatically disabled. This is because SSDTs can be loaded anywhere in the namespace, the compiler has no knowledge of where, and thus cannot optimize namepaths. Added "ProcessorObj" to the ObjectTypeKeyword list. This object type was inadvertently omitted from the ACPI specification, and will require an update to the spec. The source file scan for ASCII characters is now optional (-a). This change was made because some vendors place non-ascii characters within comments. However, the scan is simply a brute-force byte compare to ensure all characters in the file are in the range 0x00 to 0x7F. Fixed a problem with the CondRefOf operator where the compiler was inappropriately checking for the existence of the target. Since the point of the operator is to check for the existence of the target at run-time, the compiler no longer checks for the target existence. Fixed a problem where errors generated from the internal AML interpreter during constant folding were not handled properly, causing a fault. Fixed a problem with overly aggressive range checking for the Stall operator. The valid range (max 255) is now only checked if the operand is of type Integer. All other operand types cannot be statically checked. Fixed a problem where control method references within the RefOf, DeRefOf, and ObjectType operators were not treated properly. They are now treated as actual references, not method invocations. Fixed and enhanced the "list namespace" option (-ln). This option was broken a number of releases ago. Improved error handling for the Field, IndexField, and BankField operators. The compiler now cleanly reports and recovers from errors in the field component (FieldUnit) list. Fixed a disassembler problem where the optional ResourceDescriptor fields TRS and TTP were not always handled correctly. Disassembler - Comments in output now use "//" instead of "/*" ---------------------------------------- 28 February 2005. Summary of changes for version 20050228: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Fixed a problem where the result of an Index() operator (an object reference) must increment the reference count on the target object for the life of the object reference. Implemented AML Interpreter and Debugger support for the new ACPI 3.0 Extended Address (IO, Memory, Space), QwordSpace, DwordSpace, and WordSpace resource descriptors. Implemented support in the _OSI method for the ACPI 3.0 "Extended Address Space Descriptor" string, indicating interpreter support for the descriptors above. Implemented header support for the new ACPI 3.0 FADT flag bits. Implemented header support for the new ACPI 3.0 PCI Express bits for the PM1 status/enable registers. Updated header support for the MADT processor local Apic struct and MADT platform interrupt source struct for new ACPI 3.0 fields. Implemented header support for the SRAT and SLIT ACPI tables. Implemented the -s switch in AcpiExec to enable the "InterpreterSlack" flag at runtime. Code and Data Size: Current and previous core subsystem library sizes are shown below. These are the code and data sizes for the acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 compiler, and these values do not include any ACPI driver or OSPM code. The debug version of the code includes the debug output trace mechanism and has a much larger code and data size. Note that these values will vary depending on the efficiency of the compiler and the compiler options used during generation. Previous Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.2K Code, 11.5K Data, 89.7K Total Debug Version: 164.9K Code, 69.2K Data, 234.1K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.3K Code, 11.5K Data, 89.8K Total Debug Version: 165.4K Code, 69.6K Data, 236.0K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler: Fixed a problem with the internal 64-bit String-to-integer conversion with strings less than two characters long. Fixed a problem with constant folding where the result of the Index() operator can not be considered a constant. This means that Index() cannot be a type3 opcode and this will require an update to the ACPI specification. Disassembler: Implemented support for the TTP, MTP, and TRS resource descriptor fields. These fields were inadvertently ignored and not output in the disassembly of the resource descriptor. ---------------------------------------- 11 February 2005. Summary of changes for version 20050211: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Implemented ACPI 3.0 support for implicit conversion within the Match() operator. MatchObjects can now be of type integer, buffer, or string instead of just type integer. Package elements are implicitly converted to the type of the MatchObject. This change aligns the behavior of Match() with the behavior of the other logical operators (LLess(), etc.) It also requires an errata change to the ACPI specification as this support was intended for ACPI 3.0, but was inadvertently omitted. Fixed a problem with the internal implicit "to buffer" conversion. Strings that are converted to buffers will cause buffer truncation if the string is smaller than the target buffer. Integers that are converted to buffers will not cause buffer truncation, only zero extension (both as per the ACPI spec.) The problem was introduced when code was added to truncate the buffer, but this should not be performed in all cases, only the string case. Fixed a problem with the Buffer and Package operators where the interpreter would get confused if two such operators were used as operands to an ASL operator (such as LLess(Buffer(1){0},Buffer(1){1}). The internal result stack was not being popped after the execution of these operators, resulting in an AE_NO_RETURN_VALUE exception. Fixed a problem with constructs of the form Store(Index(...),...). The reference object returned from Index was inadvertently resolved to an actual value. This problem was introduced in version 20050114 when the behavior of Store() was modified to restrict the object types that can be used as the source operand (to match the ACPI specification.) Reduced excessive stack use within the AcpiGetObjectInfo procedure. Added a fix to aclinux.h to allow generation of AcpiExec on Linux. Updated the AcpiSrc utility to add the FADT_DESCRIPTOR_REV2_MINUS struct. Code and Data Size: Current and previous core subsystem library sizes are shown below. These are the code and data sizes for the acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 compiler, and these values do not include any ACPI driver or OSPM code. The debug version of the code includes the debug output trace mechanism and has a much larger code and data size. Note that these values will vary depending on the efficiency of the compiler and the compiler options used during generation. Previous Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.1K Code, 11.5K Data, 89.6K Total Debug Version: 164.8K Code, 69.2K Data, 234.0K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.2K Code, 11.5K Data, 89.7K Total Debug Version: 164.9K Code, 69.2K Data, 234.1K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler: Fixed a code generation problem in the constant folding optimization code where incorrect code was generated if a constant was reduced to a buffer object (i.e., a reduced type 5 opcode.) Fixed a typechecking problem for the ToBuffer operator. Caused by an incorrect return type in the internal opcode information table. ---------------------------------------- 25 January 2005. Summary of changes for version 20050125: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Fixed a recently introduced problem with the Global Lock where the underlying semaphore was not created. This problem was introduced in version 20050114, and caused an AE_AML_NO_OPERAND exception during an Acquire() operation on _GL. The local object cache is now optional, and is disabled by default. Both AcpiExec and the iASL compiler enable the cache because they run in user mode and this enhances their performance. #define ACPI_ENABLE_OBJECT_CACHE to enable the local cache. Fixed an issue in the internal function AcpiUtEvaluateObject concerning the optional "implicit return" support where an error was returned if no return object was expected, but one was implicitly returned. AE_OK is now returned in this case and the implicitly returned object is deleted. AcpiUtEvaluateObject is only occasionally used, and only to execute reserved methods such as _STA and _INI where the return type is known up front. Fixed a few issues with the internal convert-to-integer code. It now returns an error if an attempt is made to convert a null string, a string of only blanks/tabs, or a zero-length buffer. This affects both implicit conversion and explicit conversion via the ToInteger() operator. The internal debug code in AcpiUtAcquireMutex has been commented out. It is not needed for normal operation and should increase the performance of the entire subsystem. The code remains in case it is needed for debug purposes again. The AcpiExec source and makefile are included in the Unix/Linux package for the first time. Code and Data Size: Current and previous core subsystem library sizes are shown below. These are the code and data sizes for the acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 compiler, and these values do not include any ACPI driver or OSPM code. The debug version of the code includes the debug output trace mechanism and has a much larger code and data size. Note that these values will vary depending on the efficiency of the compiler and the compiler options used during generation. Previous Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.4K Code, 11.5K Data, 89.9K Total Debug Version: 165.4K Code, 69.4K Data, 234.8K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.1K Code, 11.5K Data, 89.6K Total Debug Version: 164.8K Code, 69.2K Data, 234.0K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler: Switch/Case support: A warning is now issued if the type of the Switch value cannot be determined at compile time. For example, Switch(Arg0) will generate the warning, and the type is assumed to be an integer. As per the ACPI spec, use a construct such as Switch(ToInteger(Arg0)) to eliminate the warning. Switch/Case support: Implemented support for buffer and string objects as the switch value. This is an ACPI 3.0 feature, now that LEqual supports buffers and strings. Switch/Case support: The emitted code for the LEqual() comparisons now uses the switch value as the first operand, not the second. The case value is now the second operand, and this allows the case value to be implicitly converted to the type of the switch value, not the other way around. Switch/Case support: Temporary variables are now emitted immediately within the control method, not at the global level. This means that there are now 36 temps available per-method, not 36 temps per-module as was the case with the earlier implementation (_T_0 through _T_9 and _T_A through _T_Z.) ---------------------------------------- 14 January 2005. Summary of changes for version 20050114: Added 2005 copyright to all module headers. This affects every module in the core subsystem, iASL compiler, and the utilities. 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Fixed an issue with the String-to-Buffer conversion code where the string null terminator was not included in the buffer after conversion, but there is existing ASL that assumes the string null terminator is included. This is the root of the ACPI_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT regression. This problem was introduced in the previous version when the code was updated to correctly set the converted buffer size as per the ACPI specification. The ACPI spec is ambiguous and will be updated to specify that the null terminator must be included in the converted buffer. This also affects the ToBuffer() ASL operator. Fixed a problem with the Mid() ASL/AML operator where it did not work correctly on Buffer objects. Newly created sub-buffers were not being marked as initialized. Fixed a problem in AcpiTbFindTable where incorrect string compares were performed on the OemId and OemTableId table header fields. These fields are not null terminated, so strncmp is now used instead of strcmp. Implemented a restriction on the Store() ASL/AML operator to align the behavior with the ACPI specification. Previously, any object could be used as the source operand. Now, the only objects that may be used are Integers, Buffers, Strings, Packages, Object References, and DDB Handles. If necessary, the original behavior can be restored by enabling the EnableInterpreterSlack flag. Enhanced the optional "implicit return" support to allow an implicit return value from methods that are invoked externally via the AcpiEvaluateObject interface. This enables implicit returns from the _STA and _INI methods, for example. Changed the Revision() ASL/AML operator to return the current version of the AML interpreter, in the YYYYMMDD format. Previously, it incorrectly returned the supported ACPI version (This is the function of the _REV method). Updated the _REV predefined method to return the currently supported version of ACPI, now 3. Implemented batch mode option for the AcpiExec utility (-b). Code and Data Size: Current and previous core subsystem library sizes are shown below. These are the code and data sizes for the acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 compiler, and these values do not include any ACPI driver or OSPM code. The debug version of the code includes the debug output trace mechanism and has a much larger code and data size. Note that these values will vary depending on the efficiency of the compiler and the compiler options used during generation. Previous Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.3K Code, 11.5K Data, 89.8K Total Debug Version: 165.3K Code, 69.4K Data, 234.7K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.4K Code, 11.5K Data, 89.9K Total Debug Version: 165.4K Code, 69.4K Data, 234.8K Total ---------------------------------------- 10 December 2004. Summary of changes for version 20041210: ACPI 3.0 support is nearing completion in both the iASL compiler and the ACPI CA core subsystem. 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Fixed a problem in the ToDecimalString operator where the resulting string length was incorrectly calculated. The length is now calculated exactly, eliminating incorrect AE_STRING_LIMIT exceptions. Fixed a problem in the ToHexString operator to allow a maximum 200 character string to be produced. Fixed a problem in the internal string-to-buffer and buffer-to-buffer copy routine where the length of the resulting buffer was not truncated to the new size (if the target buffer already existed). Code and Data Size: Current and previous core subsystem library sizes are shown below. These are the code and data sizes for the acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 compiler, and these values do not include any ACPI driver or OSPM code. The debug version of the code includes the debug output trace mechanism and has a much larger code and data size. Note that these values will vary depending on the efficiency of the compiler and the compiler options used during generation. Previous Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.3K Code, 11.5K Data, 89.8K Total Debug Version: 164.7K Code, 68.5K Data, 233.2K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.3K Code, 11.5K Data, 89.8K Total Debug Version: 165.3K Code, 69.4K Data, 234.7K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler: Implemented the new ACPI 3.0 resource template macros - DWordSpace, ExtendedIO, ExtendedMemory, ExtendedSpace, QWordSpace, and WordSpace. Includes support in the disassembler. Implemented support for the new (ACPI 3.0) parameter to the Register macro, AccessSize. Fixed a problem where the _HE resource name for the Interrupt macro was referencing bit 0 instead of bit 1. Implemented check for maximum 255 interrupts in the Interrupt macro. Fixed a problem with the predefined resource descriptor names where incorrect AML code was generated if the offset within the resource buffer was 0 or 1. The optimizer shortened the AML code to a single byte opcode but did not update the surrounding package lengths. Changes to the Dma macro: All channels within the channel list must be in the range 0-7. Maximum 8 channels can be specified. BusMaster operand is optional (default is BusMaster). Implemented check for maximum 7 data bytes for the VendorShort macro. The ReadWrite parameter is now optional for the Memory32 and similar macros. ---------------------------------------- 03 December 2004. Summary of changes for version 20041203: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: The low-level field insertion/extraction code (exfldio) has been completely rewritten to eliminate unnecessary complexity, bugs, and boundary conditions. Fixed a problem in the ToInteger, ToBuffer, ToHexString, and ToDecimalString operators where the input operand could be inadvertently deleted if no conversion was necessary (e.g., if the input to ToInteger was an Integer object.) Fixed a problem with the ToDecimalString and ToHexString where an incorrect exception code was returned if the resulting string would be > 200 chars. AE_STRING_LIMIT is now returned. Fixed a problem with the Concatenate operator where AE_OK was always returned, even if the operation failed. Fixed a problem in oswinxf (used by AcpiExec and iASL) to allow > 128 semaphores to be allocated. Code and Data Size: Current and previous core subsystem library sizes are shown below. These are the code and data sizes for the acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 compiler, and these values do not include any ACPI driver or OSPM code. The debug version of the code includes the debug output trace mechanism and has a much larger code and data size. Note that these values will vary depending on the efficiency of the compiler and the compiler options used during generation. Previous Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.5K Code, 11.5K Data, 90.0K Total Debug Version: 165.2K Code, 68.6K Data, 233.8K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.3K Code, 11.5K Data, 89.8K Total Debug Version: 164.7K Code, 68.5K Data, 233.2K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler: Fixed typechecking for the ObjectType and SizeOf operators. Problem was recently introduced in 20041119. Fixed a problem with the ToUUID macro where the upper nybble of each buffer byte was inadvertently set to zero. ---------------------------------------- 19 November 2004. Summary of changes for version 20041119: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Fixed a problem in the internal ConvertToInteger routine where new integers were not truncated to 32 bits for 32-bit ACPI tables. This routine converts buffers and strings to integers. Implemented support to store a value to an Index() on a String object. This is an ACPI 2.0 feature that had not yet been implemented. Implemented new behavior for storing objects to individual package elements (via the Index() operator). The previous behavior was to invoke the implicit conversion rules if an object was already present at the index. The new behavior is to simply delete any existing object and directly store the new object. Although the ACPI specification seems unclear on this subject, other ACPI implementations behave in this manner. (This is the root of the AE_BAD_HEX_CONSTANT issue.) Modified the RSDP memory scan mechanism to support the extended checksum for ACPI 2.0 (and above) RSDPs. Note that the search continues until a valid RSDP signature is found with a valid checksum. Code and Data Size: Current and previous core subsystem library sizes are shown below. These are the code and data sizes for the acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 compiler, and these values do not include any ACPI driver or OSPM code. The debug version of the code includes the debug output trace mechanism and has a much larger code and data size. Note that these values will vary depending on the efficiency of the compiler and the compiler options used during generation. Previous Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.5K Code, 11.5K Data, 90.0K Total Debug Version: 165.2K Code, 68.6K Data, 233.8K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.5K Code, 11.5K Data, 90.0K Total Debug Version: 165.2K Code, 68.6K Data, 233.8K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler: Fixed a missing semicolon in the aslcompiler.y file. ---------------------------------------- 05 November 2004. Summary of changes for version 20041105: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Implemented support for FADT revision 2. This was an interim table (between ACPI 1.0 and ACPI 2.0) that adds support for the FADT reset register. Implemented optional support to allow uninitialized LocalX and ArgX variables in a control method. The variables are initialized to an Integer object with a value of zero. This support is enabled by setting the AcpiGbl_EnableInterpreterSlack flag to TRUE. Implemented support for Integer objects for the SizeOf operator. Either 4 or 8 is returned, depending on the current integer size (32-bit or 64-bit, depending on the parent table revision). Fixed a problem in the implementation of the SizeOf and ObjectType operators where the operand was resolved to a value too early, causing incorrect return values for some objects. Fixed some possible memory leaks during exceptional conditions. Code and Data Size: Current and previous core subsystem library sizes are shown below. These are the code and data sizes for the acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 compiler, and these values do not include any ACPI driver or OSPM code. The debug version of the code includes the debug output trace mechanism and has a much larger code and data size. Note that these values will vary depending on the efficiency of the compiler and the compiler options used during generation. Previous Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.0K Code, 11.5K Data, 89.5K Total Debug Version: 164.8K Code, 68.6K Data, 233.4K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.5K Code, 11.5K Data, 90.0K Total Debug Version: 165.2K Code, 68.6K Data, 233.8K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler: Implemented support for all ACPI 3.0 reserved names and methods. Implemented all ACPI 3.0 grammar elements in the front-end, including support for semicolons. Implemented the ACPI 3.0 Function() and ToUUID() macros Fixed a problem in the disassembler where a Scope() operator would not be emitted properly if the target of the scope was in another table. ---------------------------------------- 15 October 2004. Summary of changes for version 20041015: Note: ACPI CA is currently undergoing an in-depth and complete formal evaluation to test/verify the following areas. Other suggestions are welcome. This will result in an increase in the frequency of releases and the number of bug fixes in the next few months. - Functional tests for all ASL/AML operators - All implicit/explicit type conversions - Bit fields and operation regions - 64-bit math support and 32-bit-only "truncated" math support - Exceptional conditions, both compiler and interpreter - Dynamic object deletion and memory leaks - ACPI 3.0 support when implemented - External interfaces to the ACPI subsystem 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Fixed two alignment issues on 64-bit platforms - within debug statements in AcpiEvGpeDetect and AcpiEvCreateGpeBlock. Removed references to the Address field within the non-aligned ACPI generic address structure. Fixed a problem in the Increment and Decrement operators where incorrect operand resolution could result in the inadvertent modification of the original integer when the integer is passed into another method as an argument and the arg is then incremented/decremented. Fixed a problem in the FromBCD operator where the upper 32-bits of a 64-bit BCD number were truncated during conversion. Fixed a problem in the ToDecimal operator where the length of the resulting string could be set incorrectly too long if the input operand was a Buffer object. Fixed a problem in the Logical operators (LLess, etc.) where a NULL byte (0) within a buffer would prematurely terminate a compare between buffer objects. Added a check for string overflow (>200 characters as per the ACPI specification) during the Concatenate operator with two string operands. Code and Data Size: Current and previous core subsystem library sizes are shown below. These are the code and data sizes for the acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 compiler, and these values do not include any ACPI driver or OSPM code. The debug version of the code