Re: [Devel] False positive iasl compiler error on resource object?

We've provided the -cr option to disable the resource descriptor error checking.

This is an interesting problem. On one hand, we would like to provide static (compile time) error checking as much as possible. On the other hand, the resource descriptors (as well as most any other ASL/AML object) can be dynamically changed. We've seen many ACPI tables with invalid resource descriptors (at both compile time and runtime), and that is the reason the resource descriptor validation was added to the compiler in the first place. I don't want to just remove this validation, but yes, perhaps iASL should be able to recognize that this descriptor may be modified at runtime and therefore a static validation cannot be performed. There are at least a few indicators: 1) The descriptor is basically all zeroes 2) There is a CreateXxxField reference to the descriptor 3) There is a Store to the created field So, perhaps we could detect the above conditions and then disable validation for this particular descriptor. Note, conditions (2) and (3) may be difficult to detect. I'm open to suggestions.