Version 20161117

17 November 2016. Summary of changes for version 20161117:

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

1) ACPICA kernel-resident subsystem:

Table Manager: Fixed a regression introduced in 20160729, "FADT support cleanup". This was an attempt to remove all references in the source to the FADT version 2, which never was a legal version number. It was skipped because it was an early version of 64-bit support that was eventually abandoned for the current 64-bit support.

Interpreter: Fixed a problem where runtime implicit conversion was incorrectly disabled for the ASL operators below. This brings the behavior into compliance with the ACPI specification:
FromBCD
ToBCD
ToDecimalString
ToHexString
ToInteger
ToBuffer

Table Manager: Added a new public interface, AcpiPutTable, used to release and free an ACPI table returned by AcpiGetTable and related interfaces. Lv Zheng.

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: 140.5K Code, 58.5K Data, 198.9K Total
Debug Version: 201.3K Code, 82.7K Data, 284.0K Total
Previous Release:
Non-Debug Version: 140.4K Code, 58.1K Data, 198.5K Total
Debug Version: 200.7K Code, 82.1K Data, 282.8K Total

2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and Tools:

Disassembler: Fixed a regression for disassembly of Resource Template. Detection of templates in the AML stream missed some types of templates.

iASL: Fixed a problem where an Access Size error was returned for the PCC address space when the AccessSize of the GAS register is greater than a DWORD. Hoan Tran.

iASL: Implemented several grammar changes for the operators below. These changes are slated for the next version of the ACPI specification:
RefOf - Disallow method invocation as an operand
CondRefOf - Disallow method invocation as an operand
DerefOf - Disallow operands that use the result from operators that
do not return a reference (Changed TermArg to SuperName).

iASL: Control method invocations are now allowed for Target operands, as per the ACPI specification. Removed error for using a control method invocation as a Target operand.

Disassembler: Improved detection of Resource Templates, Unicode, and Strings within Buffer objects. These subtypes do not contain a specific opcode to indicate the originating ASL code, and they must be detected by other means within the disassembler.

iASL: Implemented an optimization improvement for 32-bit ACPI tables (DSDT/SSDT). For the 32-bit case only, compute the optimum integer opcode only after 64-bit to 32-bit truncation. A truncation warning message is still emitted, however.

AcpiXtract: Implemented handling for both types of line terminators (LF or CR/LF) so that it can accept AcpiDump output files from any system. Peter Wu.

AcpiBin: Added two new options for comparing AML files:
-a: compare and display ALL mismatches
-o: start compare at this offset into the second file