Request New Feature in BIOS Modding Tool

Discussion in 'BIOS Mods' started by weinter, Jan 12, 2010.

  1. weinter

    weinter MDL Senior Member

    Feb 19, 2009
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    Hi,
    I like to request a feature in the AMITool to allow free editing of the DSDT because of the OSI Method in many BIOS.
    In many BIOS AML code like this exist:
    If you notice the problem is there is no entry for Windows 2009 (aka Windows 7)
    This issue is present in many board released before Windows 7.
    Also the AML Code differ some OEM implement it this way:

    So there is no standard AML Parsing.
    For AML BIOS the MMTool doesn't allow easy parsing and editing so I hope AMITool will be able to do that in the future.

    Thanks
     
  2. weinter

    weinter MDL Senior Member

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    Hi
    Sorry to bother you again but I noticed the new feature is implemented using iasl, a quirk of iasl is it tends to try and optimize DSDT by default problem is older OS do not like that and can cause boot failure.
    To solve that issue iasl has to compile using "iasl -oa DSDT.dsl".
    -oa has to be added to disable optimization to be backward compatible.
    The tool has become something to solve BIOS, OEM shipped with broken DSDT!
    Thank You once again.
     
  3. weinter

    weinter MDL Senior Member

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    Thanks Andy
    I managed to debug my DSDT to zero errors with your new tool =)