Version 20130626

26 June 2013. Summary of changes for version 20130626:

This release is available at https://acpica.org/downloads

1) ACPICA kernel-resident subsystem:

Fixed an issue with runtime repair of the _CST object. Null or invalid elements were not always removed properly. Lv Zheng.

Removed an arbitrary restriction of 256 GPEs per GPE block (such as the FADT-defined GPE0 and GPE1). For GPE0, GPE1, and each GPE Block Device, the maximum number of GPEs is 1016. Use of multiple GPE block devices makes the system-wide number of GPEs essentially unlimited.

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.

Current Release:
Non-Debug Version: 95.9K Code, 26.9K Data, 122.8K Total
Debug Version: 184.1K Code, 76.7K Data, 260.8K Total
Previous Release:
Non-Debug Version: 96.0K Code, 27.0K Data, 123.0K Total
Debug Version: 184.1K Code, 76.8K Data, 260.9K Total

2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and Tools:

Portable AcpiDump: Implemented full support for the Linux and FreeBSD hosts. Now supports Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows.

Disassembler: Added some missing types for the HEST and EINJ tables: "Set Error Type With Address", "CMCI", "MCE", and "Flush Cacheline".

iASL/Preprocessor: Implemented full support for nested #if/#else/#elif/#endif blocks. Allows arbitrary depth of nested blocks.

Disassembler: Expanded maximum output string length to 64K. Was 256 bytes max. The original purpose of this constraint was to limit the amount of debug output. However, the string function in question (UtPrintString) is now used for the disassembler also, where 256 bytes is insufficient. Reported by RehabMan@GitHub.

iASL/DataTables: Fixed some problems and issues with compilation of DMAR tables. ACPICA BZ 999. Lv Zheng.

iASL: Fixed a couple of error exit issues that could result in a "Could not delete " message during ASL compilation.

AcpiDump: Allow "FADT" and "MADT" as valid table signatures, even though the actual signatures for these tables are "FACP" and "APIC", respectively.

AcpiDump: Added support for multiple UEFI tables. Only SSDT and UEFI tables are allowed to have multiple instances.