[coreboot] iasl failure

[Marc Jones]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Marc Jones <marcj303 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> The latest IASL from acpica.org fails.
>>> http://www.acpica.org/downloads/unix_source_code.php
>>> It seems like the name substitution no longer works, but I am
>>> uncertain if this is an IASL or coreboot issue. Thoughts?
>>>
>>>
>>>     IASL       build/mainboard/amd/mahogany/dsdt.o
>>>
>>> Intel ACPI Component Architecture
>>> ASL Optimizing Compiler version 20100304 [Mar 18 2010]
>>> Copyright (c) 2000 - 2010 Intel Corporation
>>> Supports ACPI Specification Revision 4.0
>>>
>>> /home/marc/svn/coreboot/build/mainboard/amd/mahogany/dsdt.asl  1296:
>>> Name (_ADR, Zero)
>>> Error    4080 -                       Invalid object type for reserved
>>> name, must be ^  (Integer)
>>>
>>> ASL Input:  /home/marc/svn/coreboot/build/mainboard/amd/mahogany/dsdt.asl
>>> - 1827 lines, 35334 bytes, 1008 keywords
>>> Compilation complete. 1 Errors, 0 Warnings, 0 Remarks, 362 Optimizations
>>> make: *** [/home/marc/svn/coreboot/build/mainboard/amd/mahogany/dsdt.o]
>>> Error 255
>>
>> I thought coreboot's name substitution was done after asl compiled the file.
>> Have you tried running iasl on the file outside the build process?
>
> Yes, It fails outside the build previous versions work.
>
> Google has turned up some other discussion about this and it is a bug
> in the 20100304 release.
> http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=189272&st=40&p=1425244&#entry1425244
>
> I'm opening a bug @ acpica.org.

I've been informed that there is a fixed implemented in the repository
and it will be in the April release.

Marc

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