Native DSDT/AML IDE & Compiler: MaciASL Open Beta

[mklengel]

Of course I don't use these characters anymore but the problem remains. The Non-RM-Version of MaciASL says

"The file “iASLLRTZaS.dsl” couldn’t be saved using text encoding Western (ASCII)."

Going the opposite way = decompiling the active DSDT gives the following message, which should tell me the problem. What is the meaning of these the warnings/errors?

I've converted e.g. 0x2F5C1502 to L1wVAg== (Base64) and to "/\" (Text). The last doesn't exist in the DSL file. Looks like a comment error.

iASL returned:
Loading Acpi table from file iASLzqlInK.aml - Length 00088250 (0158BA)
ACPI: DSDT 0x0000000000000000 0158BA (v02 ASUS MacBookP 00000012 INTL 20180427)
Acpi table [DSDT] successfully installed and loaded
Pass 1 parse of [DSDT]
ACPI Warning: Invalid character(s) in name (0x2F5C1502), repaired: [****] (20140926/utstring-710)
ACPI Warning: Invalid character(s) in name (0x2F5C1501), repaired: [****] (20140926/utstring-710)
ACPI Error: ACPI Warning: Invalid character(s) in name (0x2F5C1501), repaired: [****] (20140926/utstring-710)
[****] Namespace lookup failure, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS (20140926/dswload-453)
ACPI Exception: AE_ALREADY_EXISTS, During name lookup/catalog (20140926/psobject-305)

Regards
Michael

 

[RehabMan]

Of course I don't use these characters anymore but the problem remains. The Non-RM-Version of MaciASL says

"The file “iASLLRTZaS.dsl” couldn’t be saved using text encoding Western (ASCII)."

Going the opposite way = decompiling the active DSDT gives the following message, which should tell me the problem. What is the meaning of these the warnings/errors?

I've converted e.g. 0x2F5C1502 to L1wVAg== (Base64) and to "/\" (Text). The last doesn't exist in the DSL file. Looks like a comment error.

iASL returned:
Loading Acpi table from file iASLzqlInK.aml - Length 00088250 (0158BA)
ACPI: DSDT 0x0000000000000000 0158BA (v02 ASUS MacBookP 00000012 INTL 20180427)
Acpi table [DSDT] successfully installed and loaded
Pass 1 parse of [DSDT]
ACPI Warning: Invalid character(s) in name (0x2F5C1502), repaired: [****] (20140926/utstring-710)
ACPI Warning: Invalid character(s) in name (0x2F5C1501), repaired: [****] (20140926/utstring-710)
ACPI Error: ACPI Warning: Invalid character(s) in name (0x2F5C1501), repaired: [****] (20140926/utstring-710)
[****] Namespace lookup failure, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS (20140926/dswload-453)
ACPI Exception: AE_ALREADY_EXISTS, During name lookup/catalog (20140926/psobject-305)

Regards
Michael

Refer to the guide:
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-patching-laptop-dsdt-ssdts.152573/

 

[mklengel]

Solved - there was a strange character in one of my comments. Difficult to find in >20k LoC. Now MaciASL is happy again.

 

[RehabMan]

Solved - there was a strange character in one of my comments. Difficult to find in >20k LoC. Now MaciASL is happy again.

Yes... iasl is overly picky about ASCII adherence.

 

[mklengel]

The problematic character was in a comment.
iasl had no problem with this - which is logical, because it simply ignores the comments.
MaciASL didn't accept this character.

 

[RehabMan]

The problematic character was in a comment.
iasl had no problem with this - which is logical, because it simply ignores the comments.
MaciASL didn't accept this character.

MaciASL File Save As .aml (ACPI Machine Language Binary) uses iasl to compile to AML.

 

[mklengel]

MaciASL doesn't save the source file (.dsl). I wrote in #272:

After some editing of e.g. DSDT.dsl I got the message from MaciASL after selecting "Save":

"The document "DSDT.dsl" could not be saved"

In this case I think its MaciASL. But its ok for me, no problem at all.

 

[RehabMan]

MaciASL doesn't save the source file (.dsl). I wrote in #272:

After some editing of e.g. DSDT.dsl I got the message from MaciASL after selecting "Save":

"The document "DSDT.dsl" could not be saved"

In this case I think its MaciASL. But its ok for me, no problem at all.

Note: I do most of my .dsl editing in Xcode.

If you think you find a bug in MaciASL, you should provide a small example .dsl file that demonstrates the bug.

 

[mklengel]

Easy: the following 4 lines are enough. Changing "/* ä */" to /* a */ and MaciASL is able to save the file.

/* ä */
DefinitionBlock ("", "SSDT", 1, "PmRef", "CpuPm", 0x00003000)
{
}

 

[RehabMan]

Easy: the following 4 lines are enough. Changing "/* ä */" to /* a */ and MaciASL is able to save the file.

/* ä */
DefinitionBlock ("", "SSDT", 1, "PmRef", "CpuPm", 0x00003000)
{
}

Yes... it is a bug.