Re: [PATCH edk2-platforms v1][platforms/devel-dynamictables] Platform/ARM: Fix OEM Table ID length in DSDT

[Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 05:42:54PM +0100, Sami Mujawar wrote:
> The OEM Table ID length cannot be more than 8 characters.
> Moreover, the ACPICA iASL compiler patch "Add error messages
> for ACPI tables with bad OEM and OEM Table IDs" dated
> 13 April 2018 [20180413]
> (https://github.com/acpica/acpica/commit/ca828bd15604699c14a02e98f4d0d9c4d6885e44)
> introduced checks for the OEM Table ID length. If the
> OEM Table ID length is more than 8 characters in the
> DSDT/SSDT table's DefinitionBlock(), it flags them as
> an error.
> 
> This patch adjusts the length of the OEM Table ID to
> 8 characters in the DSDT and SSDT tables.
> 
> Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1
> Signed-off-by: Sami Mujawar <sami.mujawar@arm.com>

Reviewed-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
Pushed as 693bbd8747.

> ---
> 
> The changes can be seen at https://github.com/samimujawar/edk2-platforms/tree/289_fix_dsdt_definitionblock_v1
> 
> Notes:
>     v1:
>     - Fixed DSDT build error flagged by latest ACPICA iasl compiler [SAMI]
> 
>  Platform/ARM/VExpressPkg/ConfigurationManager/PlatformASLTablesLib/Dsdt.asl | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Platform/ARM/VExpressPkg/ConfigurationManager/PlatformASLTablesLib/Dsdt.asl b/Platform/ARM/VExpressPkg/ConfigurationManager/PlatformASLTablesLib/Dsdt.asl
> index 15ce7c020045d42f08cf92ad76644b07f0a1e25e..fae6a4be423b4b7da5e9677139f2ab3deac5520e 100644
> --- a/Platform/ARM/VExpressPkg/ConfigurationManager/PlatformASLTablesLib/Dsdt.asl
> +++ b/Platform/ARM/VExpressPkg/ConfigurationManager/PlatformASLTablesLib/Dsdt.asl
> @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
>  
>  **/
>  
> -DefinitionBlock("DsdtTable.aml", "DSDT", 1, "ARMLTD", "ARM-VEXPRESS", 1) {
> +DefinitionBlock("DsdtTable.aml", "DSDT", 1, "ARMLTD", "ARM-VEXP", 1) {
>    Scope(_SB) {
>      //
>      // Processor
> -- 
> 'Guid(CE165669-3EF3-493F-B85D-6190EE5B9759)'
> 
>