Il 16/10/2012 19:57, Richard W.M. Jones ha scritto: >> > Alternatively, it would also be good to get a generic exception that >> > would let us distribute pre-compiled .dsl files as RPM sources. I'll >> > try to get ppc & ppc64 to use a cross-compiled SeaBIOS. > I think it'd be good for the packaging committee (as well as for me) > if you could explain what the pre-compiled .dsl files contain. Is it > just tables of ACPI data, or code as well? I understand from the > ACPICA website that ACPI has some sort of interpreter or VM? Imdeed, the files contain bytecode. Here is a sample input: ============= ACPI_EXTRACT_ALL_CODE ssdp_susp_aml DefinitionBlock ("ssdt-susp.aml", "SSDT", 0x01, "BXPC", "BXSSDTSUSP", 0x1) { Scope(\) { ACPI_EXTRACT_NAME_STRING acpi_s3_name Name (_S3, Package (0x04) { One, /* PM1a_CNT.SLP_TYP */ One, /* PM1b_CNT.SLP_TYP */ Zero, /* reserved */ Zero /* reserved */ }) ACPI_EXTRACT_NAME_STRING acpi_s4_name ACPI_EXTRACT_PKG_START acpi_s4_pkg Name (_S4, Package (0x04) { 0x2, /* PM1a_CNT.SLP_TYP */ 0x2, /* PM1b_CNT.SLP_TYP */ Zero, /* reserved */ Zero /* reserved */ }) Name (_S5, Package (0x04) { Zero, /* PM1a_CNT.SLP_TYP */ Zero, /* PM1b_CNT.SLP_TYP */ Zero, /* reserved */ Zero /* reserved */ }) } } ============= and the distributed file could be (depending on the details of the build process) either something like this: ============= static unsigned char ssdp_susp_aml[] = { 0x53, 0x53, 0x44, 0x54, 0x4e, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x1, 0x45, 0x42, 0x58, 0x50, 0x43, 0x0, 0x0, 0x42, 0x58, 0x53, 0x53, 0x44, 0x54, 0x53, 0x55, 0x1, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x49, 0x4e, 0x54, 0x4c, 0x28, 0x5, 0x10, 0x20, 0x10, 0x29, 0x5c, 0x0, 0x8, 0x5f, 0x53, 0x33, 0x5f, 0x12, 0x6, 0x4, 0x1, 0x1, 0x0, 0x0, 0x8, 0x5f, 0x53, 0x34, 0x5f, 0x12, 0x8, 0x4, 0xa, 0x2, 0xa, 0x2, 0x0, 0x0, 0x8, 0x5f, 0x53, 0x35, 0x5f, 0x12, 0x6, 0x4, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0 }; ============= or something like this: ============= Intel ACPI Component Architecture ASL Optimizing Compiler version 20100528 [Jul 20 2012] Copyright (c) 2000 - 2010 Intel Corporation Supports ACPI Specification Revision 4.0a Compilation of "out/ssdt-susp.dsl.i" - Tue Oct 16 13:16:52 2012 1.... 2..../* ACPI_EXTRACT_ALL_CODE ssdp_susp_aml */ 3.... 4....DefinitionBlock ("ssdt-susp.aml", "SSDT", 0x01, "BXPC", "BXSSDTSUSP", 0x1) 00000000....53 53 44 54 4E 00 00 00 "SSDTN..." 00000008....01 45 42 58 50 43 00 00 ".EBXPC.." 00000010....42 58 53 53 44 54 53 55 "BXSSDTSU" 00000018....01 00 00 00 49 4E 54 4C "....INTL" 00000020....28 05 10 20 ............ "(.. " 5....{ 6.... Scope(\) { 00000024....10 29 5C 00 ............ ".)\." 7.... 8..../* ACPI_EXTRACT_NAME_STRING acpi_s3_name */ 9.... 10.... Name (_S3, Package (0x04) 11.... { 12.... One, 13.... One, 14.... Zero, 15.... Zero 16.... }) 00000028....08 5F 53 33 5F ......... "._S3_" 0000002D....12 06 04 01 01 00 00 ... "......." 17.... 18..../* ACPI_EXTRACT_NAME_STRING acpi_s4_name */ 19.... 20.... 21..../* ACPI_EXTRACT_PKG_START acpi_s4_pkg */ 22.... 23.... Name (_S4, Package (0x04) 24.... { 25.... 0x2, 26.... 0x2, 27.... Zero, 28.... Zero 29.... }) 00000042....08 5F 53 35 5F ......... "._S5_" 00000047....12 06 04 00 00 00 00 ... "......." 37.... } 38....} 39.... Summary of errors and warnings ASL Optimizing Compiler version 20100528 [Jul 20 2012] ASL Input: out/ssdt-susp.dsl.i - 40 lines, 677 bytes, 4 keywords AML Output: out/ssdt-susp.aml - 78 bytes, 4 named objects, 0 executable opcodes Compilation complete. 0 Errors, 0 Warnings, 0 Remarks, 0 Optimizations ============= Paolo -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging