Fedora 22 Update: acpica-tools-20160108-1.fc22

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2016-0e20a0e3f1
2016-01-21 21:58:51.435815
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Name        : acpica-tools
Product     : Fedora 22
Version     : 20160108
Release     : 1.fc22
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:

1) ACPICA kernel-resident subsystem:  Updated all ACPICA copyrights and signons
to 2016: Added the 2016 copyright to all source code module headers and
utility/tool signons. This includes the standard Linux dual-license header. This
affects virtually every file in the ACPICA core subsystem, iASL compiler, all
ACPICA utilities, and the ACPICA test suite.      Fixed a regression introduced
in version 20151218 concerning the execution of so-called module-level ASL/AML
code. Namespace objects created under a module-level If() construct were not
properly/fully entered into the namespace and could cause an interpreter fault
when accessed.    2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and Tools:  Fixed a problem with
the compilation of the GpioIo and GpioInt resource descriptors. The _PIN field
name was incorrectly defined to be an array of 32-bit values, but the _PIN
values are in fact 16 bits each. This would cause incorrect bit width warnings
when using Word (16-bit) fields to access the descriptors.  ----  General
updates and bug fixes to the AML interpreter, and the various command line
tools.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1297078 - acpica-tools-20160108 is available
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1297078
  [ 2 ] Bug #1292987 - acpica-tools-20151218 is available
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1292987
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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 https://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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