bits-862 released with these changes:

The "A Complicated Parsing Interface (ACPI)" release

• Rewrite acpi module to use new unpacking, parsing, and classes

  This introduces a new data unpacking infrastructure and class, replacing most of the uses of namedtuple with something more extensible and flexible. The new infrastructure handles nested tables and reused common structures much more cleanly, and automatically generates output code based on field-by-field formatting instructions.

  In the process, add support for several new ACPI tables, including the RSDP, RSDT, XSDT, _MAT, and FACS. Also decode more fields of existing tables, and break out some flags fields into individual flags.

  Update init and testacpi to handle the changes to the acpi API.

  Most importantly, this new infrastructure makes it much easier to write tests based on the contents of ACPI tables.

• acpi.get_table: Support retrieving the RSDP, RSDT, and XSDT

  ACPICA's normal AcpiGetTable does not support retrieving these tables by signature. Add C functions in _bits to retrieve them, and then hide the special-casing in a new Python implementation of get_table, so that acpi.get_table works transparently for these tables.

• Add new acpi.show_checksum function, to compute and display a table's checksum

• Make acpi.get_table's instance parameter default to 1

  The underlying AcpiGetTable method accepts either 0 or 1 to refer to the first instance, 2 for the second instance, and so on. Using 0 seems inconsistent; let's embrace the 1-based ordering.

• acpi: Preserve linebreaks when wrapping, to improve formatting of tables

• Avoid returning duplicate signatures in acpi.get_table_list()

  acpi.get_table_list() returned one copy of a table signature for each instance of a table. Return a sorted list of unique signatures instead.

• init: Make ACPI-related initialization more robust against exceptions