Version 20120518

1) ACPICA Core Subsystem:

Added a new OSL interface, AcpiOsWaitEventsComplete. This interface is defined to block until asynchronous events such as notifies and GPEs have completed. Within ACPICA, it is only called before a notify or GPE handler is removed/uninstalled. It also may be useful for the host OS within related drivers such as the Embedded Controller driver. See the ACPICA reference for additional information. ACPICA BZ 868.

ACPI Tables: Added a new error message for a possible overflow failure during the conversion of FADT 32-bit legacy register addresses to internal common 64-bit GAS structure representation. The GAS has a one-byte "bit length" field, thus limiting the register length to 255 bits. ACPICA BZ 953.

Example Code and Data Size: These are the sizes for the OS-independent acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 9.0 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: 92.9K Code, 25.0K Data, 117.9K Total
Debug Version: 172.6K Code, 73.4K Data, 246.0K Total
Current Release:
Non-Debug Version: 93.0K Code, 25.1K Data, 118.1K Total
Debug Version: 172.7K Code, 73.6K Data, 246.3K Total

2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and Tools:

iASL: Added the ACPI 5.0 "PCC" keyword for use in the Register() ASL macro. This keyword was added late in the ACPI 5.0 release cycle and was not implemented until now.

Disassembler: Added support for Operation Region externals. Adds missing
support for operation regions that are defined in another table, and
referenced locally via a Field or BankField ASL operator. Now generates
the
correct External statement.

Disassembler: Several additional fixes for the External() statement generation related to some ASL operators. Also, order the External() statements alphabetically in the disassembler output. Fixes the External() generation for the Create* field, Alias, and Scope operators:

1. Create* buffer field operators - fix type mismatch warning on disassembly
2. Alias - implement missing External support
3. Scope - fix to make sure all necessary externals are emitted.

iASL: Improved pathname support. For include files, merge the prefix pathname with the file pathname and eliminate unnecessary components. Convert backslashes in all pathnames to forward slashes, for readability. Include file pathname changes affect both #include and Include() type operators.

iASL/DTC/Preprocessor: Gracefully handle early EOF. Handle an EOF at the end of a valid line by inserting a newline and then returning the EOF during the next call to GetNextLine. Prevents the line from being ignored due to EOF condition.

iASL: Implemented some changes to enhance the IDE support (-vi option.) Error and Warning messages are now correctly recognized for both the source code browser and the global error and warning counts.