Logfile: Changes for version 20140214.

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+14 February 2014. Summary of changes for version 20140214:
+
+1) ACPICA kernel-resident subsystem:
+
+Implemented a new mechanism to proactively prevent problems with ill-
+behaved reentrant control methods that create named ACPI objects. This 
+behavior is illegal as per the ACPI specification, but is nonetheless 
+frequently seen in the field. Previously, this could lead to an 
+AE_ALREADY_EXISTS exception if the method was actually entered by more 
+than one thread. This new mechanism detects such methods at table load 
+time and marks them "serialized" to prevent reentrancy. A new global 
+option, AcpiGbl_AutoSerializeMethods, has been added to disable this 
+feature if desired. This mechanism and global option obsoletes and 
+supersedes the previous AcpiGbl_SerializeAllMethods option.
+
+Added the "Windows 2013" string to the _OSI support. ACPICA will now 
+respond TRUE to _OSI queries with this string. It is the stated policy of 
+ACPICA to add new strings to the _OSI support as soon as possible after 
+they are defined. See the full ACPICA _OSI policy which has been added to 
+the utilities/utosi.c file.
+
+Hardened/updated the _PRT return value auto-repair code:
+1) Do not abort the repair on a single subpackage failure, continue to 
+check all subpackages.
+2) Add check for the minimum subpackage length (4).
+3) Properly handle extraneous NULL package elements.
+
+Added support to avoid the possibility of infinite loops when traversing 
+object linked lists. Never allow an infinite loop, even in the face of 
+corrupted object lists.
+
+ACPICA headers: Deployed the use of #pragma pack(push) and #pragma 
+pack(pop) directives to ensure that the ACPICA headers are independent of 
+compiler settings or other host headers.
+
+Example Code and Data Size: These are the sizes for the OS-independent 
+acpica.lib produced by the Microsoft Visual C++ 9.0 32-bit compiler. The 
+debug version of the code includes the debug output trace mechanism and 
+has a much larger code and data size.
+
+  Current Release:
+    Non-Debug Version:  96.5K Code, 27.2K Data, 123.7K Total
+    Debug Version:     188.6K Code, 79.0K Data, 267.6K Total
+  Previous Release:
+    Non-Debug Version:  96.2K Code, 27.0K Data, 123.2K Total
+    Debug Version:     187.5K Code, 78.3K Data, 265.8K Total
+
+
+2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and Tools:
+
+iASL/Table-compiler: Fixed a problem with support for the SPMI table. The 
+first reserved field was incorrectly forced to have a value of zero. This 
+change correctly forces the field to have a value of one. ACPICA BZ 1081.
+
+Debugger: Added missing support for the "Extra" and "Data" subobjects 
+when displaying object data.
+
+Debugger: Added support to display entire object linked lists when 
+displaying object data.
+
+iASL: Removed the obsolete -g option to obtain ACPI tables from the 
+Windows registry. This feature has been superseded by the acpidump 
+utility. 
+
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 14 January 2014. Summary of changes for version 20140114:
 
 1) ACPICA kernel-resident subsystem: