Changelog for acpica-20210331-4.1.i586.rpm :

* Fri Apr 16 2021 Ferdinand Thiessen - Update to version 20210331
* ACPI 6.4 is now supported! ACPICA kernel-resident subsystem:
* Always create namespace nodes.
* Fixed a race condition in generic serial bus operation region handler. iASL Compiler/Disassembler and ACPICA tools:
* Add disassembly support for the IVRS table.
* Fixed a potential infinite loop due to type mismatch. iASL/TableCompiler:
* update it with IORT table E.b revision changes.
* Add compilation support for the VIOT table.
* Add compilation support for CEDT table.
* Update of the CEDT template.
* Tue Jan 05 2021 Matthias Eliasson - Update to version 20210105 ACPICA kernel-resident subsystem:
* Updated all copyrights to 2021. This affects all ACPICA source code modules. iASL Compiler/Disassembler and ACPICA tools:
* ASL test suite (ASLTS): Updated all copyrights to 2021.
* Tools and utilities: Updated all signon copyrights to 2021.
* iASL Table Compiler: Removed support for obsolete ACPI tables: VRTC, MTMR. Al Stone.
* Fri Jul 24 2020 Matthias Eliasson - Update to version 20200717 ACPICA kernel-resident subsystem:
* Do not increment OperationRegion reference counts for field units. Recent server firmware has revealed that this reference count can overflow on large servers that declare many field units (thousands) under the same OperationRegion. This occurs because each field unit declaration will add a reference count to the source OperationRegion. This release solves the reference count overflow for OperationRegion objects by preventing fieldUnits from incrementing their parent OperationRegion\'s reference count.
* Replaced one-element arrays with flexible-arrays, which were introduced in C99.
* Restored the readme file containing the directions for generation of ACPICA from source on MSVC 2017. Updated the file for MSVC 2017. File is located at: generate/msvc2017/readme.txt iASL Compiler/Disassembler and ACPICA tools:
* iASL: Fixed a regression found in version 20200214. Prevent iASL from emitting an extra byte of garbage data when control methods declared a single parameter type without using braces. This extra byte is known to cause a blue screen on the Windows AML interpreter.
* iASL: Made a change to allow external declarations to specify the type of a named object even when some name segments are not defined. This change allows the following ASL code to compile (When DEV0 is not defined or not defined yet): External (\\_SB.DEV0.OBJ1, IntObj) External (\\_SB.DEV0, DeviceObj)
* iASL: Fixed a problem where method names in \"Alias ()\" statement could be misinterpreted. They are now interpreted correctly as method invocations.
* iASL: capture a method parameter count (Within the Method info segment, as well as the argument node) when using parameter type lists.
* Thu Jul 02 2020 Matthias Eliasson - Update to version 20200528 ACPICA kernel-resident subsystem: Removed old/obsolete Visual Studio files which were used to build the Windows versions of the ACPICA tools. Since we have moved to Visual Studio 2017, we are no longer supporting Visual Studio 2006 and 2009 project files. The new subdirectory and solution file are located at: acpica/generate/msvc2017/AcpiComponents.sln iASL Compiler/Disassembler and ACPICA tools:
* iASL: added support for a new OperationRegion Address Space (subtype): PlatformRtMechanism. Support for this new keyword is being released for early prototyping. It will appear in the next release of the ACPI specification.
* iASL: do not optimize the NameString parameter of the CondRefOf operator. In the previous iASL compiler release, the NameString parameter of the CondRefOf was optimized. There is evidence that some implementations of the AML interpreter do not perform the recursive search-to-parent search during the execution of the CondRefOf operator. Therefore, the CondRefOf operator behaves differently when the NameString parameter is a single name segment (a NameSeg) as opposed to a full NamePath (starting at the root scope) or a NameString containing parent prefixes.
* iASL: Prevent an inadvertent remark message. This change prevents a remark if within a control method the following exist: 1) An Operation Region is defined, and 2) A Field operator is defined that refers to the region. This happens because at the top level, the Field operator does not actually create a new named object, it simply references the operation region.
* Removed support for the acpinames utility. The acpinames was a simple utility used to populate and display the ACPI namespace without executing any AML code. However, ACPICA now supports executable opcodes outside of control methods. This means that executable AML opcodes such as If and Store opcodes need to be executed during table load. Therefore, acpinames would need to be updated to match the same behavior as the acpiexec utility and since acpiexec can already dump the entire namespace (via the \'namespace\' command), we no longer have the need to maintain acpinames.
* In order to dump the contents of the ACPI namepsace using acpiexec, execute the following command from the command line: acpiexec -b \"n\" [aml files]- Refresh parches
* Mon Apr 27 2020 Martin Liška - Enable -fcommon in CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS in order to fix boo#1160383.
* Thu Feb 06 2020 trennAATTsuse.de- Add -fcommon as there are a lot re-definitions which lead to errors and compile failures with gcc10 which enables -fno-common by default bsc#1160383 - acpica fails with -fno-common
* Mon Jan 20 2020 Luigi Baldoni - Update to version 20200110
* Tue May 28 2019 Jan Engelhardt - Use noun phrase in summary
* Wed May 22 2019 trennAATTsuse.de- Update to version 20190509 Includes a fix that breaks VirtualBox https://github.com/acpica/acpica/issues/462
* Mon Apr 08 2019 trennAATTsuse.de- Update to version 20190405 iASL: Implemented an enhanced multiple file compilation that combines named objects from all input files to a single namespace. With this feature, any unresolved external declarations as well as duplicate named object declarations can be detected during compilation rather than generating errors much later at runtime. The following commands are examples that utilize this feature: iasl dsdt.asl ssdt.asl iasl dsdt.asl ssdt1.asl ssdt2.asl iasl dsdt.asl ssdt
*.asl- Adjusted patch: M acpica-no-compiletime.patch
* Wed Mar 13 2019 Matthias Eliasson - Update to version 20190215 Support for ACPI specification version 6.3:
* Add PCC operation region support for the AML interpreter. This adds PCC operation region support in the AML interpreter and a default handler for acpiexec. The change also renames the PCC region address space keyword to PlatformCommChannel.
* Support for new predefined methods _NBS, _NCH, _NIC, _NIH, and _NIG. These methods provide OSPM with health information and device boot status.
* PDTT: Add TriggerOrder to the PCC Identifier structure. The field value defines if the trigger needs to be invoked by OSPM before or at the end of kernel crash dump processing/handling operation.
* SRAT: Add Generic Affinity Structure subtable. This subtable in the SRAT is used for describing devices such as heterogeneous processors, accelerators, GPUs, and IO devices with integrated compute or DMA engines.
* MADT: Add support for statistical profiling in GICC. Statistical profiling extension (SPE) is an architecture-specific feature for ARM.
* MADT: Add online capable flag. If this bit is set, system hardware supports enabling this processor during OS runtime.
* New Error Disconnect Recover Notification value. There are a number of scenarios where system Firmware in collaboration with hardware may disconnect one or more devices from the rest of the system for purposes of error containment. Firmware can use this new notification value to alert OSPM of such a removal.
* PPTT: New additional fields in Processor Structure Flags. These flags provide more information about processor topology.
* NFIT/Disassembler: Change a field name from \"Address Range\" to \"Region Type\".
* HMAT updates: make several existing fields to be reserved as well as rename subtable 0 to \"memory proximity domain attributes\".
* GTDT: Add support for new GTDT Revision 3. This revision adds information for the EL2 timer.
* iASL: Update the HMAT example template for new fields.
* iASL: Add support for the new revision of the GTDT (Rev 3). ACPICA kernel-resident subsystem:
* AML Parser: fix the main AML parse loop to correctly skip erroneous extended opcodes. AML opcodes come in two lengths: 1-byte opcodes and 2- byte extended opcodes. If an error occurs during an AML table load, the AML parser will continue loading the table by skipping the offending opcode. This implements a \"load table at any cost\" philosophy. iASL Compiler/Disassembler and Tools:
* iASL: Add checks for illegal object references, such as a reference outside of method to an object within a method. Such an object is only temporary.
* iASL: Emit error for creation of a zero-length operation region. Such a region is rather pointless. If encountered, a runtime error is also implemented in the interpeter.
* Debugger: Fix a possible fault with the \"test objects\" command.
* iASL: Makefile: support parent directory filenames containing embedded spaces.
* iASL: Update the TPM2 template to revision 4.
* iASL: Add the ability to report specific warnings or remarks as errors.
* Disassembler: Disassemble OEMx tables as actual AML byte code. Previously, these tables were treated as \"unknown table\".
* iASL: Add definition and disassembly for TPM2 revision 3.
* iASL: Add support for TPM2 rev 3 compilation.- Refresh patches- Run spec-cleaner
* Mon Jul 02 2018 trennAATTsuse.de- Update to 20180629 Added changelog from mainline, installed into documentation path
* Sat May 26 2018 aloisioAATTgmx.com- Update to version 20180508 ACPICA kernel-resident subsystem:
* Completed the new (recently deployed) package resolution mechanism for the Load and LoadTable ASL/AML operators. This fixes a regression that was introduced in version 20180209 that could result in an AE_AML_INTERNAL exception during the loading of a dynamic ACPI/AML table (SSDT) that contains package objects. iASL Compiler/Disassembler and Tools:
* AcpiDump and AcpiXtract: Implemented support for ACPI tables larger than 1 MB. This change allows for table offsets within the acpidump file to be up to 8 characters. These changes are backwards compatible with existing acpidump files. version 20180427 ACPICA kernel-resident subsystem:
* Debugger: Added support for Package objects in the \"Test Objects\" command. This command walks the entire namespace and evaluates all named data objects (Integers, Strings, Buffers, and now Packages).
* Improved error messages for the namespace root node. Originally, the root was referred to by the confusing string \"\\___\". This has been replaced by \"Namespace Root\" for clarification.
* Fixed a potential infinite loop in the AcpiRsDumpByteList function. Colin Ian King . iASL Compiler/Disassembler and Tools:
* iASL: Implemented support to detect and flag illegal forward references. For compatibility with other ACPI implementations, these references are now illegal at the root level of the DSDT or SSDTs. Forward references have always been illegal within control methods. This change should not affect existing ASL/AML code because of the fact that these references have always been illegal in the other ACPI implementation.
* iASL: Added error messages for the case where a table OEM ID and OEM TABLE ID strings are longer than the ACPI-defined length. Previously, these strings were simply silently truncated.
* iASL: Enhanced the -tc option (which creates an AML hex file in C, suitable for import into a firmware project): 1) Create a unique name for the table, to simplify use of multiple SSDTs. 2) Add a protection #ifdef in the file, similar to a .h header file. With assistance from Sami Mujawar, sami.mujawarAATTarm.com and Evan Lloyd, evan.lloydAATTarm.com
* AcpiExec: Added a new option, -df, to disable the local fault handler. This is useful during debugging, where it may be desired to drop into a debugger on a fault.
* Wed Apr 18 2018 josef.moellersAATTsuse.com- Upgrade to latest version 20180313- Update patches:
* acpica-no-compiletime.patch
* do_not_use_build_date_and_time.patch
* Fri Jan 12 2018 trennAATTsuse.de- Update to latest version 20180105 D revert_62ca7996_build_date_and_time.patch D revert_cdd3c612d4230bbb_build_date_and_time.patch A do_not_use_build_date_and_time.patch- pass --jobs from build service to make for much faster building
* Fri Jan 12 2018 josef.moellersAATTsuse.com- Changed shebang path in wmidump_add_she_bang.patch to /usr/bin/python3 [bsc#1075687,wmidump_add_she_bang.patch]