ACPICA version 20120111 released
by Moore, Robert
11 January 2012. Summary of changes for version 20120111:
This release is available at www.acpica.org/downloads.
The ACPI 5.0 specification is available at www.acpi.info.
1) ACPICA Core Subsystem:
Implemented a new mechanism to allow host device drivers to check for address range conflicts with ACPI Operation Regions. Both SystemMemory and SystemIO address spaces are supported. A new external interface, AcpiCheckAddressRange, allows drivers to check an address range against the ACPI namespace. See the ACPICA reference for additional details. Adds one new file, utilities/utaddress.c. Lin Ming, Bob Moore.
Fixed several issues with the ACPI 5.0 FADT support: Add the sleep Control and Status registers, update the ACPI 5.0 flags, and update internal data structures to handle an FADT larger than 256 bytes. The size of the ACPI 5.0 FADT is 268 bytes.
Updated all ACPICA copyrights and signons to 2012. Added the 2012 copyright to all module headers and signons, including the standard Linux header. This affects virtually every file in the ACPICA core subsystem, iASL compiler, and all ACPICA utilities.
Example Code and Data Size: These are the sizes for the OS-independent acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 9.0 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: 92.3K Code, 24.9K Data, 117.2K Total
Debug Version: 170.8K Code, 72.6K Data, 243.4K Total
Current Release:
Non-Debug Version: 92.8K Code, 24.9K Data, 117.7K Total
Debug Version: 171.7K Code, 72.9K Data, 244.5K Total
2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and Tools:
Disassembler: fixed a problem with the automatic resource tag generation support. Fixes a problem where the resource tags are inadvertently not constructed if the table being disassembled contains external references to control methods. Moved the actual construction of the tags to after the final namespace is constructed (after 2nd parse is invoked due to external control method references.) ACPICA BZ 941.
Table Compiler: Make all "generic" operators caseless. These are the operators like UINT8, String, etc. Making these caseless improves ease-of-use. ACPICA BZ 934.
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