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> 11 March 2004. Summary of changes for version 20040311:
>
> 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem:
>
> Fixed a problem where errors occurring during the parse phase of
> control method execution did not abort cleanly. For example,
> objects created and installed in the namespace were not deleted.
> This caused all subsequent invocations of the method to return
> the AE_ALREADY_EXISTS exception.
>
> Implemented a mechanism to force a control method to "Serialized"
> execution if the method attempts to create namespace objects.
> (The root of the AE_ALREADY_EXISTS problem.)
>
> Implemented support for the predefined _OSI "internal" control
> method. Initial supported strings are "Linux", "Windows 2000",
> "Windows 2001", and "Windows 2001.1", and can be easily upgraded
> for new strings as necessary. This feature will allow "other"
> operating systems to execute the fully tested, "Windows" code
> path through the ASL code
>
> Global Lock Support: Now allows multiple acquires and releases
> with any internal thread. Removed concept of "owning thread" for
> this special mutex.
>
> Fixed two functions that were inappropriately declaring large
> objects on the CPU stack: PsParseLoop, NsEvaluateRelative.
> Reduces the stack usage during method execution considerably.
>
> Fixed a problem in the ACPI 2.0 FACS descriptor (actbl2.h) where
> the S4Bios_f field was incorrectly defined as UINT32 instead of
> UINT32_BIT.
>
> Fixed a problem where AcpiEvGpeDetect would fault if there were
> no GPEs defined on the machine.
>
> Implemented two runtime options: One to force all control method
> execution to "Serialized" to mimic Windows behavior, another to
> disable _OSI support if it causes problems on a given machine.
>
> Code and Data Size: Current and previous core subsystem library
> sizes are shown below. These are the code and data sizes for the
> acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 compiler, and
> these values do not include any ACPI driver or OSPM code. The
> debug version of the code includes the debug output trace
> mechanism and has a much larger code and data size. Note that
> these values will vary depending on the efficiency of the
> compiler and the compiler options used during generation.
>
> Previous Release:
> Non-Debug Version: 74.8K Code, 10.1K Data, 84.9K Total
> Debug Version: 158.7K Code, 65.1K Data, 223.8K Total
> Current Release:
> Non-Debug Version: 76.5K Code, 11.3K Data, 87.8K Total
> Debug Version: 160.3K Code, 66.0K Data, 226.3K Total
>
> 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler:
>
> Fixed an array size problem for FreeBSD that would cause the
> compiler to fault.
>
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> 11 March 2004. Summary of changes for version 20040311:
>
> 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem:
>
> Fixed a problem where errors occurring during the parse phase of
> control method execution did not abort cleanly. For example,
> objects created and installed in the namespace were not deleted.
> This caused all subsequent invocations of the method to return
> the AE_ALREADY_EXISTS exception.
>
> Implemented a mechanism to force a control method to "Serialized"
> execution if the method attempts to create namespace objects.
> (The root of the AE_ALREADY_EXISTS problem.)
>
> Implemented support for the predefined _OSI "internal" control
> method. Initial supported strings are "Linux", "Windows 2000",
> "Windows 2001", and "Windows 2001.1", and can be easily upgraded
> for new strings as necessary. This feature will allow "other"
> operating systems to execute the fully tested, "Windows" code
> path through the ASL code
>
> Global Lock Support: Now allows multiple acquires and releases
> with any internal thread. Removed concept of "owning thread" for
> this special mutex.
>
> Fixed two functions that were inappropriately declaring large
> objects on the CPU stack: PsParseLoop, NsEvaluateRelative.
> Reduces the stack usage during method execution considerably.
>
> Fixed a problem in the ACPI 2.0 FACS descriptor (actbl2.h) where
> the S4Bios_f field was incorrectly defined as UINT32 instead of
> UINT32_BIT.
>
> Fixed a problem where AcpiEvGpeDetect would fault if there were
> no GPEs defined on the machine.
>
> Implemented two runtime options: One to force all control method
> execution to "Serialized" to mimic Windows behavior, another to
> disable _OSI support if it causes problems on a given machine.
>
> Code and Data Size: Current and previous core subsystem library
> sizes are shown below. These are the code and data sizes for the
> acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 compiler, and
> these values do not include any ACPI driver or OSPM code. The
> debug version of the code includes the debug output trace
> mechanism and has a much larger code and data size. Note that
> these values will vary depending on the efficiency of the
> compiler and the compiler options used during generation.
>
> Previous Release:
> Non-Debug Version: 74.8K Code, 10.1K Data, 84.9K Total
> Debug Version: 158.7K Code, 65.1K Data, 223.8K Total
> Current Release:
> Non-Debug Version: 76.5K Code, 11.3K Data, 87.8K Total
> Debug Version: 160.3K Code, 66.0K Data, 226.3K Total
>
> 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler:
>
> Fixed an array size problem for FreeBSD that would cause the
> compiler to fault.
>
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