On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:03:04PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 20 March 2014 22:41, Marcel Apfelbaum <marce...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 2014-03-20 at 22:17 +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: > >> echo "trivial iasl source" | iasl --compile-options | iasl > >> --disassemble-options | grep "error" > >> > >> Fill in the handwaving with actual syntax ;-) > > > Problem with this solution is that if we start from the source, > > it will compile into a *wrong* AML (e.g header length will be BE and not > > LE), > > then the disassemble will *succeed* (!!!). > > However, the expected AML file will be in the right format and fail :(. > > Well, grep for 'some integer that comes out wrong due > to the iasl bug', if it doesn't always result in an error > like the case you reported to the iasl mailing list. > > You need to write this code at some point because we do > need to be able to configure-time detect whether we have > a working iasl or a broken one, once fixed ones get out > into the wild. It doesn't seem like it ought to be that hard > to just do it right to start with... > > thanks > -- PMM
Hard to predict the future: it's possible that some distros will ship partially broken iasl on BE. We really need to see a working one to be sure ... -- MST
