Fedora 21 Update: acpica-tools-20140828-1.fc21

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-9966
2014-08-30 04:35:34
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Name        : acpica-tools
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 20140828
Release     : 1.fc21
URL         : https://www.acpica.org/
Summary     : ACPICA tools for the development and debug of ACPI tables
Description :
The ACPI Component Architecture (ACPICA) project provides an OS-independent
reference implementation of the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
Specification (ACPI).  ACPICA code contains those portions of ACPI meant to
be directly integrated into the host OS as a kernel-resident subsystem, and
a small set of tools to assist in developing and debugging ACPI tables.

This package contains only the user-space tools needed for ACPI table
development, not the kernel implementation of ACPI.  The following commands
are installed:
   -- iasl: compiles ASL (ACPI Source Language) into AML (ACPI Machine
      Language), suitable for inclusion as a DSDT in system firmware.
      It also can disassemble AML, for debugging purposes.
   -- acpibin: performs basic operations on binary AML files (e.g.,
      comparison, data extraction)
   -- acpidump: write out the current contents of ACPI tables
   -- acpiexec: simulate AML execution in order to debug method definitions
   -- acpihelp: display help messages describing ASL keywords and op-codes
   -- acpinames: display complete ACPI name space from input AML
   -- acpisrc: manipulate the ACPICA source tree and format source files
      for specific environments
   -- acpixtract: extract binary ACPI tables from acpidump output (see
      also the pmtools package)

This version of the tools is being released under GPLv2 license.

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Update Information:

Updates package to the latest upstream.

This package now provides full support for the ACPI 5.1 specification which was only recently released.
Updates to latest upstream.

The biggest addition is support for the just released 5.1 version of the ACPI spec which includes significant support for ARMv8.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1135352 - acpica-tools-20140828 is available
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1135352
  [ 2 ] Bug #1114275 - acpica-tools-20140724 is available
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1114275
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update acpica-tools' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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