On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 02:17 +0000, Martian67 wrote: > Hi, when i attempt to recompile a buggy DSDT table for my > PSPA3C-MA502C, I get some compiletime errors, and i am not sure how to adress > them properly. > > I am running through this procedure as outlined @ > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Fix_Common_ACPI_Problems > > ************************************************************************** > > cat /proc/acpi/dsdt > dsdt.dat > > iasl -d dsdt.dat > > iasl -tc dsdt.dsl > > ************************************************************************** > > When I attempt to do this it results in these errors > > *************************************************************************** > > Intel ACPI Component Architecture > ASL Optimizing Compiler version 20061109 [May 15 2007] > Copyright (C) 2000 - 2006 Intel Corporation > Supports ACPI Specification Revision 3.0a > > dsdt.dsl 1773: Name (_T_0, 0x00) > Error 4081 - Use of reserved word ^ (_T_0) > > dsdt.dsl 1851: Name (_T_0, 0x00) > Error 4081 - Use of reserved word ^ (_T_0) > > dsdt.dsl 2145: Name (_T_0, 0x00) > Error 4081 - Use of reserved word ^ (_T_0) > > dsdt.dsl 2223: Name (_T_0, 0x00) > Error 4081 - Use of reserved word ^ (_T_0) Hmm, I wonder why this is reserved, but renaming all instances of _T_0 to e.g. _TX0 or whatever should solve this? Looks like a minor bug in the ACPI disassembler for me. > > dsdt.dsl 6516: Method (BTST, 0, NotSerialized) > Warning 1086 - ^ Not all control paths return a > value (BTST) > > dsdt.dsl 6543: Name (_HID, "*PNP0C14") > Error 4001 - ^ String must be entirely > alphanumeric (*PNP0C14) Remove the "*". Could you explain why your DSDT is broken and what kind of bug you like to fix. To workaround ACPICA or DSDT bugs by simply overriding it is not a good idea as others might also slip into this. If possible, let's better try to find a general solution in the kernel/ACPICA code... You also might want to open a bug report for your problem: http://bugzilla.kernel.org Thomas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
