From 092d442e7ab3a7accf68bd4af0e092a0f79d3fef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robert Moore Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 09:16:40 -0800 Subject: Logfile: Changes for version 20161117 Version 20161117. --- documents/changes.txt | 79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 79 insertions(+) diff --git a/documents/changes.txt b/documents/changes.txt index 49c88a49b..52bc749df 100644 --- a/documents/changes.txt +++ b/documents/changes.txt @@ -1,3 +1,82 @@ +---------------------------------------- +17 November 2016. Summary of changes for version 20161117: + + +1) ACPICA kernel-resident subsystem: + +Table Manager: Fixed a regression introduced in 20160729, "FADT support +cleanup". This was an attempt to remove all references in the source to +the FADT version 2, which never was a legal version number. It was +skipped because it was an early version of 64-bit support that was +eventually abandoned for the current 64-bit support. + +Interpreter: Fixed a problem where runtime implicit conversion was +incorrectly disabled for the ASL operators below. This brings the +behavior into compliance with the ACPI specification: + FromBCD + ToBCD + ToDecimalString + ToHexString + ToInteger + ToBuffer + +Table Manager: Added a new public interface, AcpiPutTable, used to +release and free an ACPI table returned by AcpiGetTable and related +interfaces. 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: 140.5K Code, 58.5K Data, 198.9K Total + Debug Version: 201.3K Code, 82.7K Data, 284.0K Total + Previous Release: + Non-Debug Version: 140.4K Code, 58.1K Data, 198.5K Total + Debug Version: 200.7K Code, 82.1K Data, 282.8K Total + + +2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and Tools: + +Disassembler: Fixed a regression for disassembly of Resource Template. +Detection of templates in the AML stream missed some types of templates. + +iASL: Fixed a problem where an Access Size error was returned for the PCC +address space when the AccessSize of the GAS register is greater than a +DWORD. Hoan Tran. + +iASL: Implemented several grammar changes for the operators below. These +changes are slated for the next version of the ACPI specification: + RefOf - Disallow method invocation as an operand + CondRefOf - Disallow method invocation as an operand + DerefOf - Disallow operands that use the result from operators +that + do not return a reference (Changed TermArg to +SuperName). + +iASL: Control method invocations are now allowed for Target operands, as +per the ACPI specification. Removed error for using a control method +invocation as a Target operand. + +Disassembler: Improved detection of Resource Templates, Unicode, and +Strings within Buffer objects. These subtypes do not contain a specific +opcode to indicate the originating ASL code, and they must be detected by +other means within the disassembler. + +iASL: Implemented an optimization improvement for 32-bit ACPI tables +(DSDT/SSDT). For the 32-bit case only, compute the optimum integer opcode +only after 64-bit to 32-bit truncation. A truncation warning message is +still emitted, however. + +AcpiXtract: Implemented handling for both types of line terminators (LF +or CR/LF) so that it can accept AcpiDump output files from any system. +Peter Wu. + +AcpiBin: Added two new options for comparing AML files: + -a: compare and display ALL mismatches + -o: start compare at this offset into the second file + ---------------------------------------- 30 September 2016. Summary of changes for version 20160930: -- cgit v1.2.1