On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 02:27:40AM +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> On fre, 2006-12-01 at 15:43 -0800, Moore, Robert wrote:
> > I'm not sure I understand what you are describing, please clarify.
> 
> Please see http://bugs.debian.org/401153 for the original bug report.
> Basically, iasl successfully compiles the atteched dsl file on a regular
> i386 pc, but when running the same program on PowerPC (Debian GNU/Linux)
> then you get a segmentation fault. There is probably a bug in the
> program somewhere which seems to only trigger on powerpc at the moment.
> 
> It has been tracked down to being related to Asl.Value.String being
> NULL. This state seems invalid and makes the program crash. Do you have
> any idea what might have failed and how this variable could be
> uninitialized? It would be really appreciated if you have any hints
> about possible failures that we can investigate...

Just as a side note, I tried compiling the mentioned DSDT on an ARM
platform and I get a different error:

$ ./acpica-unix-20060912/compiler/iasl acpi-dsdt.dsl    

Intel ACPI Component Architecture
ASL Optimizing Compiler version 20060912 [Oct  2 2006]
Copyright (C) 2000 - 2006 Intel Corporation
Supports ACPI Specification Revision 3.0a

ACPI Warning (nssearch-0421): Found bad character(s) in name, repaired: [_GP*]
 [20060912]

And no AML is generated.
-- 
mattia
:wq!


-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Reply via email to