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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 08:44:00 -0800
From: Vernon Mauery <vernux@us.ibm.com>
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To: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2005@gmx.net>
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Subject: Re: [ACPI] Call for help: list of machines with working S3
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Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> 1. A first step towards better DSDTs would be to make the ASL compiler
> complain about the same things which are complained about by the
> in-kernel ACPI interpreter. An example would be the following:
> 
> acpi_processor-0496 [10] acpi_processor_get_inf: Invalid PBLK length [7]
> 
> The ASL compiler will not complain about it, yet the kernel will
> refuse to do any processor throttling with a PBLK length of 7.

This is like getting gcc to complain about run-time bugs in a program.  The compiler of a language (ASL in this case) compiles the language, regardless of run-time bugs because it can only detect syntax errors.  And iasl does that pretty well.  

--Vernon
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