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Compiling ACPI patches #3
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Yes, that’s definitely within the scope of the project. However, I currently don’t have any customized ACPI code to compile. So I might not be able to test if it trielt works as intended. But I will try my best.
Feel free to ask questions on anything about the project as it is pretty much undocumented.
However, I currently don’t have any customized ACPI code to compile.
Well, I was thinking that all the ACPI patches would be compiled at build time, even off-the-shelf ones. So you could just decompile on of them to test it. I also think their sources are around somewhere?
Even with the right process, decompiling and recompiling the patch may not give equivalent results. I will try work them out though
(I am usually super busy so don’t put high expectations on me, but I will get it done when time comes)
decompiling and recompiling the patch may not give equivalent results
Well, here are the original sources.
Hopefully, compiling the same source file should produce an identical output. I seem to remember that some metadata about what compiled it might have been embedded? That might affect things.You'll also probably have to nixify the
iasltool: would be good to not depend on a random blogger for the Linux build 🤣
Here's the monorepo, and the downloads pageThanks. And thankfully it’s already packaged as part of the nixpkgs
Didn't see that, was searching for
iasl🤦♂️
I didn't figure out that the unstable build had macOS support for a bit.
Turns out you have to use it like this to get the unstable build:nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable unstable && nix-channel --update # For some reason ~ does not work here? nix-shell -I nixpkgs=$HOME/.nix-defexpr/channels/unstable/ -p acpica-tools
(as you can probably tell, I'm new to Nix)
I think it would be a cool feature if it could compile ACPI patches during build, just to reduce the amount of opaque, non-human-readable files in the git repo.