[coreboot] [PATCH] remove namestring trickery

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Sat Jun 20 18:39:25 CEST 2009


On 20.06.2009 15:36 Uhr, Rudolf Marek wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The  namestring handling in ACPIgen was a big trickery. We were pasing
> the strings as it was a bytestream already. This was a reason for
> instead of
> _PR one had to write _PR_
So the proper name of the processor scope is _PR, not _PR_, or PR?

>
> Or \_SB.PCI0 was in fact \_SB_PCI0.
>
> This patch adds a proper namestring generation to our ACPIgen generator.
> Its used for Name and Scope and Processor now. As bonus, it allows to
> create a multi name paths too. Like Scope(\ALL.YOUR.BASE).
>
> Signed-off-by: Rudolf Marek <r.marek at assembler.cz>

Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de>

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