---------------------------------------- 14 November 2007. Summary of changes for version 20071114: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Implemented event counters for each of the Fixed Events, the ACPI SCI (interrupt) itself, and control methods executed. Named AcpiFixedEventCount[], AcpiSciCount, and AcpiMethodCount respectively. These should be useful for debugging and statistics. Implemented a new external interface, AcpiGetStatistics, to retrieve the contents of the various event counters. Returns the current values for AcpiSciCount, AcpiGpeCount, the AcpiFixedEventCount array, and AcpiMethodCount. The interface can be expanded in the future if new counters are added. Device drivers should use this interface rather than access the counters directly. Fixed a problem with the FromBCD and ToBCD operators. With some compilers, the ShortDivide function worked incorrectly, causing problems with the BCD functions with large input values. A truncation from 64-bit to 32-bit inadvertently occurred. Internal BZ 435. Lin Ming Fixed a problem with Index references passed as method arguments. References passed as arguments to control methods were dereferenced immediately (before control was passed to the called method). The references are now correctly passed directly to the called method. BZ 5389. Lin Ming Fixed a problem with CopyObject used in conjunction with the Index operator. The reference was incorrectly dereferenced before the copy. The reference is now correctly copied. BZ 5391. Lin Ming Fixed a problem with Control Method references within Package objects. These references are now correctly generated. This completes the package construction overhaul that began in version 20071019. 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: 78.8K Code, 17.2K Data, 96.0K Total Debug Version: 157.2K Code, 63.4K Data, 220.6K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 79.0K Code, 17.2K Data, 96.2K Total Debug Version: 157.9K Code, 63.6K Data, 221.5K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and Tools: The AcpiExec utility now installs handlers for all of the predefined Operation Region types. New types supported are: PCI_Config, CMOS, and PCIBARTarget. Fixed a problem with the 64-bit version of AcpiExec where the extended (64-bit) address fields for the DSDT and FACS within the FADT were not being used, causing truncation of the upper 32-bits of these addresses. Lin Ming and Bob Moore ---------------------------------------- 19 October 2007. Summary of changes for version 20071019: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Fixed a problem with the Alias operator when the target of the alias is a named ASL operator that opens a new scope -- Scope, Device, PowerResource, Processor, and ThermalZone. In these cases, any children of the original operator could not be accessed via the alias, potentially causing unexpected AE_NOT_FOUND exceptions. (BZ 9067) Fixed a problem with the Package operator where all named references were created as object references and left otherwise unresolved. According to the ACPI specification, a Package can only contain Data Objects or references to control methods. The implication is that named references to Data Objects (Integer, Buffer, String, Package, BufferField, Field) should be resolved immediately upon package creation. This is the approach taken with this change. References to all other named objects (Methods, Devices, Scopes, etc.) are all now properly created as reference objects. (BZ 5328) Reverted a change to Notify handling that was introduced in version 20070508. This version changed the Notify handling from asynchronous to fully synchronous (Device driver Notify handling with respect to the Notify ASL operator). It was found that this change caused more problems than it solved and was removed by most users. Fixed a problem with the Increment and Decrement operators where the type of the target object could be unexpectedly and incorrectly changed. (BZ 353) Lin Ming. Fixed a problem with the Load and LoadTable operators where the table location within the namespace was ignored. Instead, the table was always loaded into the root or current scope. Lin Ming. Fixed a problem with the Load operator when loading a table from a buffer object. The input buffer was prematurely zeroed and/or deleted. (BZ 577) Fixed a problem with the Debug object where a store of a DdbHandle reference object to the Debug object could cause a fault. Added a table checksum verification for the Load operator, in the case where the load is from a buffer. (BZ 578). Implemented additional parameter validation for the LoadTable operator. The length of the input strings SignatureString, OemIdString, and OemTableId are now checked for maximum lengths. (BZ 582) Lin Ming. 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: 78.5K Code, 17.1K Data, 95.6K Total Debug Version: 156.7K Code, 63.2K Data, 219.9K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.8K Code, 17.2K Data, 96.0K Total Debug Version: 157.2K Code, 63.4K Data, 220.6K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler: Fixed a problem where if a single file was specified and the file did not exist, no error message was emitted. (Introduced with wildcard support in version 20070917.) ---------------------------------------- 19 September 2007. Summary of changes for version 20070919: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Designed and implemented new external interfaces to install and remove handlers for ACPI table-related events. Current events that are defined are LOAD and UNLOAD. These interfaces allow the host to track ACPI tables as they are dynamically loaded and unloaded. See AcpiInstallTableHandler and AcpiRemoveTableHandler. (Lin Ming and Bob Moore) Fixed a problem where the use of the AcpiGbl_AllMethodsSerialized flag (acpi_serialized option on Linux) could cause some systems to hang during initialization. (Bob Moore) BZ 8171 Fixed a problem where objects of certain types (Device, ThermalZone, Processor, PowerResource) can be not found if they are declared and referenced from within the same control method (Lin Ming) BZ 341 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: 78.3K Code, 17.0K Data, 95.3K Total Debug Version: 156.3K Code, 63.1K Data, 219.4K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.5K Code, 17.1K Data, 95.6K Total Debug Version: 156.7K Code, 63.2K Data, 219.9K Total 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler: Implemented support to allow multiple files to be compiled/disassembled in a single invocation. This includes command line wildcard support for both the Windows and Unix versions of the compiler. This feature simplifies the disassembly and compilation of multiple ACPI tables in a single directory. ---------------------------------------- 08 May 2007. Summary of changes for version 20070508: 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: Implemented a Microsoft compatibility design change for the handling of the Notify AML operator. Previously, notify handlers were dispatched and executed completely asynchronously in a deferred thread. The new design still executes the notify handlers in a different thread, but the original thread that executed the Notify() now waits at a synchronization point for the notify handler to complete. Some machines depend on a synchronous Notify operator in order to operate correctly. Implemented support to allow Package objects to be passed as method arguments to the external AcpiEvaluateObject interface. Previously, this would return the AE_NOT_IMPLEMENTED exception. This feature had not been implemented since there were no reserved control methods that required it until recently. Fixed a problem with the internal FADT conversion where ACPI 1.0 FADTs that contained invalid non-zero values in reserved fields could cause later failures because these fields have meaning in later revisions of the FADT. For incoming ACPI 1.0 FADTs, these fields are now always zeroed. (The fields are: Preferred_PM_Profile, PSTATE_CNT, CST_CNT, and IAPC_BOOT_FLAGS.) Fixed a problem where the Global Lock handle was not properly updated if a thread that acquired the Global Lock via executing AML code then attempted to acquire the lock via the AcpiAcquireGlobalLock interface. Reported by Joe Liu. Fixed a problem in AcpiEvDeleteGpeXrupt where the global interrupt list could be corrupted if the interrupt being removed was at the head of the list. Reported by Linn Crosetto. 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: 78.0K Code, 17.1K Data, 95.1K Total Debug Version: 155.9K Code, 63.1K Data, 219.0K Total Current Release: Non-Debug Version: 78.3K Code, 17.0K Data, 95.3K Total Debug Version: 156.3K Code, 63.1K Data, 219.4K Total