18 October 2012. Summary of changes for version 20121018: This release is available at https://www.acpica.org/downloads The ACPI 5.0 specification is available at www.acpi.info 1) ACPICA Kernel-resident Subsystem: Updated support for the ACPI 5.0 MPST table. Fixes some problems introduced by late changes to the table as it was added to the ACPI 5.0 specification. Includes header, disassembler, and data table compiler support as well as a new version of the MPST template. AcpiGetObjectInfo: Enhanced the device object support to include the ACPI 5.0 _SUB method. Now calls _SUB in addition to the other PNP-related ID methods: _HID, _CID, and _UID. Changed ACPI_DEVICE_ID to ACPI_PNP_DEVICE_ID. Also changed ACPI_DEVICE_ID_LIST to ACPI_PNP_DEVICE_ID_LIST. These changes prevent name collisions on hosts that reserve the *_DEVICE_ID (or *DeviceId) names for their various drivers. Affects the AcpiGetObjectInfo external interface, and other internal interfaces as well. Added and deployed a new macro for ACPI_NAME management: ACPI_MOVE_NAME. This macro resolves to a simple 32-bit move of the 4-character ACPI_NAME on machines that support non-aligned transfers. Optimizes for this case rather than using a strncpy. With assistance from Zheng Lv. Resource Manager: Small fix for buffer size calculation. Fixed a one byte error in the output buffer calculation. Feng Tang. ACPICA BZ 849. Added a new debug print message for AML mutex objects that are force-released. At control method termination, any currently acquired mutex objects are force-released. Adds a new debug-only message for each one that is released. Audited/updated all ACPICA return macros and the function debug depth counter: 1) Ensure that all functions that use the various TRACE macros also use the appropriate ACPICA return macros. 2) Ensure that all normal return statements surround the return expression (value) with parens to ensure consistency across the ACPICA code base. Guan Chao, Tang Feng, Zheng Lv, Bob Moore. ACPICA Bugzilla 972. Global source code changes/maintenance: All extra lines at the start and end of each source file have been removed for consistency. Also, within comments, all new sentences start with a single space instead of a double space, again for consistency across the code base. 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: 93.7K Code, 25.3K Data, 119.0K Total Debug Version: 175.0K Code, 74.4K Data, 249.4K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 93.9K Code, 25.2K Data, 119.1K Total Debug Version: 175.5K Code, 74.5K Data, 250.0K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and Tools: AcpiExec: Improved the algorithm used for memory leak/corruption detection. Added some intelligence to the code that maintains the global list of allocated memory. The list is now ordered by allocated memory address, significantly improving performance. When running AcpiExec on the ASLTS test suite, speed improvements of 3X to 5X are seen, depending on the platform and/or the environment. Note, this performance enhancement affects the AcpiExec utility only, not the kernel-resident ACPICA code. Enhanced error reporting for invalid AML opcodes and bad ACPI_NAMEs. For the disassembler, dump the 48 bytes surrounding the invalid opcode. Fix incorrect table offset reported for invalid opcodes. Report the original 32-bit value for bad ACPI_NAMEs (as well as the repaired name.) Disassembler: Enhanced the -vt option to emit the binary table data in hex format to assist with debugging. Fixed a potential filename buffer overflow in osunixdir.c. Increased the size of file structure. Colin Ian King.