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To: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:38:57 +0900
From: Takanori Watanabe <takawata@init-main.com>
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Subject: Re: Review: Add support for additional ACPI table dump for
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In message <4D885078.70007@freebsd.org>, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>on 22/03/2011 06:43 Takanori Watanabe said the following:
>> This patch adds support capability to dump Alert Standard Format(ASF!)
>> and Simple Boot format(BOOT) table to acpidump(8).
>
>Not picking on this specific proposal, but my opinion that in general we would
>be better off if we could add acpixtract-compatible output format to acpidump.
>We already import acpixtract sources, it is maintained by ACPICA guys and
>supports a lot of useful formats.

Yes. iasl supporting many useful formats for this.

>I even had a half-baked patch for that.
>http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/acpi-dump-xtract.diff

That should be better, I think after I send previous mail, though
need not to drop current support of fixed tables interpretation.