Version 20140627

27 June 2014. Summary of changes for version 20140627:

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

1) ACPICA kernel-resident subsystem:

Formatted Output: Implemented local versions of standard formatted output utilities such as printf, etc. Over time, it has been discovered that there are in fact many portability issues with printf, and the addition of this feature will fix/prevent these issues once and for all. Some known issues are summarized below:

1) Output of 64-bit values is not portable. For example, UINT64 is %ull for the Linux kernel and is %uI64 for some MSVC versions.
2) Invoking printf consistently in a manner that is portable across both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms is difficult at best in many situations.
3) The output format for pointers varies from system to system (leading zeros especially), and leads to inconsistent output from ACPICA across platforms.
4) Certain platform-specific printf formats may conflict with ACPICA use.
5) If there is no local C library available, ACPICA now has local support for printf.

-- To address these printf issues in a complete manner, ACPICA now directly implements a small subset of printf format specifiers, only those that it requires. Adds a new file, utilities/utprint.c. Lv Zheng.

Implemented support for ACPICA generation within the EFI environment. Initially, the AcpiDump utility is supported in the UEFI shell environment. Lv Zheng.

Added a new external interface, AcpiLogError, to improve ACPICA portability. This allows the host to redirect error messages from the ACPICA utilities. Lv Zheng.

Added and deployed new OSL file I/O interfaces to improve ACPICA portability:
AcpiOsOpenFile
AcpiOsCloseFile
AcpiOsReadFile
AcpiOsWriteFile
AcpiOsGetFileOffset
AcpiOsSetFileOffset
There are C library implementations of these functions in the new file service_layers/oslibcfs.c -- however, the functions can be implemented by the local host in any way necessary. Lv Zheng.

Implemented a mechanism to disable/enable ACPI table checksum validation at runtime. This can be useful when loading tables very early during OS initialization when it may not be possible to map the entire table in order to compute the checksum. Lv Zheng.

Fixed a buffer allocation issue for the Generic Serial Bus support. Originally, a fixed buffer length was used. This change allows for variable-length buffers based upon the protocol indicated by the field access attributes. Reported by Lan Tianyu. Lv Zheng.

Fixed a problem where an object detached from a namespace node was not properly terminated/cleared and could cause a circular list problem if reattached. ACPICA BZ 1063. David Box.

Fixed a possible recursive lock acquisition in hwregs.c. Rakib Mullick.

Fixed a possible memory leak in an error return path within the function AcpiUtCopyIobjectToIobject. ACPICA BZ 1087. Colin Ian King.

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: 98.7K Code, 27.2K Data, 125.9K Total
Debug Version: 191.7K Code, 79.6K Data, 271.3K Total
Previous Release:
Non-Debug Version: 96.8K Code, 27.2K Data, 124.0K Total
Debug Version: 189.5K Code, 79.7K Data, 269.2K Total

2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and Tools:

Disassembler: Add dump of ASCII equivalent text within a comment at the end of each line of the output for the Buffer() ASL operator.

AcpiDump: Miscellaneous changes:
Fixed repetitive table dump in -n mode.
For older EFI platforms, use the ACPI 1.0 GUID during RSDP search if the ACPI 2.0 GUID fails.

iASL: Fixed a problem where the compiler could fault if incorrectly given an acpidump output file as input. ACPICA BZ 1088. David Box.

AcpiExec/AcpiNames: Fixed a problem where these utilities could fault if they are invoked without any arguments.

Debugger: Fixed a possible memory leak in an error return path. ACPICA BZ 1086. Colin Ian King.

Disassembler: Cleaned up a block of code that extracts a parent Op object. Added a comment that explains that the parent is guaranteed to be valid in this case. ACPICA BZ 1069.