ACPI 5.0

[Alex Hung]

Hi Colin,

I also start checking what's new in ACPI 5.0, though not in any 
particular topics you listed below.

Let's have some discussion on IRC or have a open IRC meeting at a 
particular time so people can join.

Best Regards,
Alex Hung

On 07/06/2012 04:03 PM, Colin Ian King wrote:
> Hi fwts developers,
>
> We are en-route to making fwts handle ACPI 5.0, but there is still a
> *lot* more work to be done.
>
> Here are some tasks that need completing:
>
> 1) Check out the ACPI 5.0 spec [1] revision history (pages iii, iv) to
> see what's new.
>
> 2) Identify new ACPI tables and add support for them (e.g. add to fwts
> acpidump and where necessary add tests to verify these tables).  [ We
> may want to also identify tables missing from fwts for ACPI 4.0 too ]
>
> 3) Identify new ACPI 5.0 controls and add tests for these to the
> "method" test.  I've already enumerated all of these new controls (and
> found a few that I omitted from ACPI 4.0) but we need still need to
> write a whole load of tests for these.
>
> 4) Identify changes to existing tables (added fields + features) and
> expand existing tests where necessary.
>
> As a sanity check, we should also look at the recent kernel changes to
> the ACPI driver see what's new, learn from this and see if there are any
> new sanity checks we should be putting into fwts. This breaks down to:
>
> a) Do we need to completely write new tests?
> b) Do we need to extend the current tests? e.g. battery tests, klog,
> fadt, etc.
>
> ..so lots more to do.
>
> I propose we get somebody to work through the list of changes and write
> these up.  We should then prioritize the changes to fwts to cater for
> these changes. Then we can get volunteers to opt-in to implement the
> missing features.  If one is starting to work on a feature it makes
> sense to inform others in this mailing list.
>
> Anyhow, I'm open for discussion on how to move this forward and for any
> suggestions to help make this plan work.
>
> Discuss! :-)
>
> Colin
>
> References:
>
> [1] http://www.acpi.info/DOWNLOADS/ACPIspec50.pdf
>