Fedora 21 Update: acpica-tools-20150515-2.fc21

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-9541
2015-06-05 16:33:01
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Name        : acpica-tools
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 20150515
Release     : 2.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:

The primary change for this package is the release of the upstream 20150515 version, which includes the vast majority of the changes needed to support the ACPI 6.0 specification.

This version of the package also contains upstream patches posted after the release to correct issues with incorrect NFIT UUIDs (a new ACPI 6.0 table), and GIC version numbers in the MADT (only affects arm64).  Additional patches correct the segfaults reported in BZ#1219341, and allow the arm64 version of acpidump to operate properly in the absence of a usable /dev/mem.

Note that BZ#1126134 should have been closed earlier; the repair needed there has been present since November 2014.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Jun  3 2015 Al Stone <ahs3 at redhat.com> - 20150515-2
- Replace dev-mem patch with nodevmem; this is a much more robust version of
  the functionality needed, and set up properly for arm64 -- the patch makes
  it so that acpidump does not use /dev/mem at all on arm64 since it might
  not contain the right data.
* Mon Jun  1 2015 Al Stone <ahs3 at redhat.com> - 20150515-1
- Update to latest upstream.  Closes BZ#122166
- Refresh patches
- Add patch from upstream for incorrect UUIDs for NFIT
- Add patch from Linaro to remove use of /dev/mem (use /sys instead)
- Add patch from upstream to correct ARM GIC entries in MADT
- Add patch to fix segfaults reported.  Closes BZ#1219341.
* Mon Apr 13 2015 Al Stone <ahs3 at redhat.com> - 20150410-1
- Update to latest upstream.  Closes BZ#1190383
- Refresh patches
* Fri Apr 10 2015 Al Stone <ahs3 at redhat.com> - 20150408-1
- Update to latest upstream.  Closes BZ#1190383
- Refresh patches
* Mon Mar  2 2015 Al Stone <ahs3 at redhat.com> - 20150204-1
- Update to latest upstream.  Closes BZ#1190383
- Refresh patches
* Mon Nov 17 2014 Al Stone <ahs3 at redhat.com> - 20141107-1
- Update to latest upstream.  Closes BZ#1147131.
- Refresh patches
- Patch to ensure ASLTS always reports when an error occurs, instead
  of glossing over it has been incorporated upstream, so remove patch.
* Wed Oct  1 2014 Al Stone <ahs3 at redhat.com> - 20140926-1
- Update to latest upstream.  Closes BZ#1147131.
- Refresh patches
- Add patch to ensure ASLTS always reports when an error occurs, instead
  of glossing over it.
- Add use of -Wl,-z,relro .  Closes BZ#1126134.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1222166 - acpica-tools-20150515 is available
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1222166
  [ 2 ] Bug #1219341 - [abrt] acpica-tools: AcpiDmPromoteTarget(): iasl killed by SIGSEGV
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1219341
  [ 3 ] Bug #1126134 - acpica-tools should be built with ldflags
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1126134
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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.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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