Re: [PATCH] ACPI update (20030122)

[Halil Demirezen <nitrium@bilmuh.ege.edu.tr>]

That seems that you've rewritten the acpi.c :)




On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:44:55PM -0800, Grover, Andrew wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> The latest ACPI patch is now available at http://sf.net/projects/acpi .
> Non-Linux packages will be available within 24 hours from
> http://developer.intel.com/technology/iapc/acpi/downloads.htm .
> 
> The patches are big primarily because we finally got with the program
> and moved our headers from drivers/acpi/include to include/acpi.
> 
> Regards -- Andy
> 
> 22 January 2003.  Summary of changes for version 20030122.
> 
> 
> 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem:
> 
> Added a check for constructs of the form:  Store (Local0,
> Local0) where Local0 is not initialized.  Apparently, some
> BIOS programmers believe that this is a NOOP.  Since this
> store doesn't do anything anyway, the new prototype behavior
> will ignore this error.  This is a case where we can relax the
> strict checking in the interpreter in the name of
> compatibility.
> 
> 
> 2) Linux
> 
> The AcpiSrc Source Conversion Utility has been released with
> the Unix package for the first time.  This is the utility
> that is used to convert the ACPI CA base source code to the
> Linux version.
> 
> (Both) Handle P_BLK lengths shorter than 6 more gracefully
> 
> (Both) Move more headers to include/acpi, and delete an unused
> header.
> 
> (Both) Move drivers/acpi/include directory to include/acpi
> 
> (Both) Boot functions don't use cmdline, so don't pass it
> around
> 
> (Both) Remove include of unused header (Adrian Bunk)
> 
> (Both) acpiphp.h includes both linux/acpi.h and acpi_bus.h.
> Since the former now also includes the latter, acpiphp.h only needs the
> one, now.
> 
> (2.5) Make it possible to select method of bios restoring
> after S3 resume. [=> no more ugly ifdefs] (Pavel Machek)
> 
> (2.5) Make proc write interfaces work (Pavel Machek)
> 
> (2.5) Properly init/clean up in cpufreq/acpi (Dominik
> Brodowski)
> 
> (2.5) Break out ACPI Perf code into its own module, under
> cpufreq (Dominik Brodowski)
> 
> (2.4) S4BIOS support (Ducrot Bruno)
> 
> (2.4) Fix acpiphp_glue.c for latest ACPI struct changes
> (Sergio Visinoni)
> 
> 
> 3) iASL Compiler:
> 
> Added support to disassemble SSDT and PSDTs.
> 
> Implemented support to obtain SSDTs from the Windows registry
> if available.
> 
> -----------------------------
> Andrew Grover
> Intel Labs / Mobile Architecture
> andrew.grover@intel.com
> 
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