ACPICA version 20090422 released

[Moore, Robert]

22 April 2009. Summary of changes for version 20090422:

This release is available at www.acpica.org/downloads

1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem:

Fixed a compatibility issue with the recently released I/O port protection mechanism. For windows compatibility, 1) On a port protection violation, simply ignore the request and do not return an exception (allow the control method to continue execution.) 2) If only part of the request overlaps a protected port, read/write the individual ports that are not protected. Linux BZ 13036. Lin Ming

Enhanced the execution of the ASL/AML BreakPoint operator so that it actually breaks into the AML debugger if the debugger is present. This matches the ACPI-defined behavior.

Fixed several possible warnings related to the use of the configurable ACPI_THREAD_ID. This type can now be configured as either an integer or a pointer with no warnings. Also fixes several warnings in printf-like statements for the 64-bit build when the type is configured as a pointer. ACPICA BZ 766, 767.

Fixed a number of possible warnings when compiling with gcc 4+ (depending on warning options.) Examples include printf formats, aliasing, unused globals, missing prototypes, missing switch default statements, use of non-ANSI library functions, use of non-ANSI constructs. See generate/unix/Makefile for a list of warning options used with gcc 3 and 4. ACPICA BZ 735.

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:  82.6K Code, 17.6K Data, 100.2K Total
    Debug Version:     157.7K Code, 49.9K Data, 207.6K Total
  Current Release:
    Non-Debug Version:  82.8K Code, 17.5K Data, 100.3K Total
    Debug Version:     158.0K Code, 49.9K Data, 207.9K Total

2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and Tools:

iASL: Fixed a generation warning from Bison 2.3 and fixed several warnings on the 64-bit build.

iASL: Fixed a problem where the Unix/Linux versions of the compiler could not correctly digest Windows/DOS formatted files (with CR/LF).

iASL: Added a new option for "quiet mode" (-va) that produces only the compilation summary, not individual errors and warnings. Useful for large batch compilations.

AcpiExec: Implemented a new option (-z) to enable a forced semaphore/mutex timeout that can be used to detect hang conditions during execution of AML code (includes both internal semaphores and AML-defined mutexes and events.)

Added new makefiles for the generation of acpica in a generic unix-like environment. These makefiles are intended to generate the acpica tools and utilities from the original acpica git source tree structure.

Test Suites: Updated and cleaned up the documentation files. Updated the copyrights to 2009, affecting all source files. Use the new version of iASL with quiet mode. Increased the number of available semaphores in the Windows OSL, allowing the aslts to execute fully on Windows. For the Unix OSL, added an alternate implementation of the semaphore timeout to allow aslts to execute fully on Cygwin.