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diff --git a/documents/changes.txt b/documents/changes.txt index 4a4f07359..2782921f0 100644 --- a/documents/changes.txt +++ b/documents/changes.txt @@ -1,4 +1,90 @@ ---------------------------------------- +18 August 2015. Summary of changes for version 20150818: + +This release is available at https://acpica.org/downloads + +1) ACPICA kernel-resident subsystem: + +Fix a regression for AcpiGetTableByIndex interface causing it to fail. Lv +Zheng. ACPICA BZ 1186. + +Completed development to ensure that the ACPICA Disassembler and Debugger +are fully standalone components of ACPICA. Removed cross-component +dependences. Lv Zheng. + +The max-number-of-AML-loops is now runtime configurable (previously was +compile-time only). This is essentially a loop timeout to force-abort +infinite AML loops. ACPCIA BZ 1192. + +Debugger: Cleanup output to dump ACPI names and namepaths without any +trailing underscores. Lv Zheng. ACPICA BZ 1135. + +Removed unnecessary conditional compilations across the Debugger and +Disassembler components where entire modules could be left uncompiled. + +The aapits test is deprecated and has been removed from the ACPICA git +tree. The test has never been completed and has not been maintained, thus +becoming rather useless. ACPICA BZ 1015, 794. + +A batch of small changes to close bugzilla and other reports: +- Remove duplicate code for _PLD processing. ACPICA BZ 1176. +- Correctly cleanup after a ACPI table load failure. ACPICA BZ 1185. +- iASL: Support POSIX yacc again in makefile. Jung-uk Kim. +- ACPI table support: general cleanup and simplification. Lv Zheng, Bob +Moore. +- ACPI table support: fix for a buffer read overrun in AcpiTbFindTable. +ACPICA BZ 1184. +- Enhance parameter validation for DataTableRegion and LoadTable ASL/AML +operators. +- Debugger: Split debugger initialization/termination interfaces. Lv +Zheng. +- AcpiExec: Emit OemTableId for SSDTs during the load phase for table +identification. +- AcpiExec: Add debug message during _REG method phase during table +load/init. +- AcpiNames: Fix a regression where some output was missing and no longer +emitted. +- Debugger: General cleanup and simplification. Lv Zheng. +- Disassembler: Cleanup use of several global option variables. Lv Zheng. + +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. + + Current Release: + Non-Debug Version: 101.3K Code, 27.7K Data, 129.0K Total + Debug Version: 198.6K Code, 80.9K Data, 279.5K Total + Previous Release: + Non-Debug Version: 100.9K Code, 24.5K Data, 125.4K Total + Debug Version: 197.8K Code, 81.5K Data, 279.3K Total + + +2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and Tools: + +AcpiExec: Fixed a problem where any more than 32 ACPI tables in the XSDT +were not handled properly and caused load errors. Now, properly invoke +and use the ACPICA auto-reallocate mechanism for ACPI table data +structures. ACPICA BZ 1188 + +AcpiNames: Add command-line wildcard support for ACPI table files. ACPICA +BZ 1190. + +AcpiExec and AcpiNames: Add -l option to load ACPI tables only. For +AcpiExec, this means that no control methods (like _REG/_INI/_STA) are +executed during initialization. ACPICA BZ 1187, 1189. + +iASL/Disassembler: Implemented a prototype "listing" mode that emits AML +that corresponds to each disassembled ASL statement, to simplify +debugging. ACPICA BZ 1191. + +Debugger: Add option to the "objects" command to display a summary of the +current namespace objects (Object type and count). This is displayed if +the command is entered with no arguments. + +AcpiNames: Add -x option to specify debug level, similar to AcpiExec. + +---------------------------------------- 17 July 2015. Summary of changes for version 20150717: 1) ACPICA kernel-resident subsystem: |