Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:06:07 -0700 From: "Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@intel.com> To: "rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru" <rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru>, Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>, Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org" <freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: [PATCH] acpidump: teach to disassemble arbitrary memory locations as AML code Message-ID: <4911F71203A09E4D9981D27F9D8308582E76D375@orsmsx503.amr.corp.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <T9FuXPeMmy2nubyMLHIDUJ/9JBQ@XX1fo6zQUfC4h0jjRC6IBz3oNH4> References: <W6QSpRPwDx1bM%2BckKMKVCUsLU5A@XX1fo6zQUfC4h0jjRC6IBz3oNH4> <4A32CA38.4020806@root.org> <4911F71203A09E4D9981D27F9D8308582E6840C8@orsmsx503.amr.corp.intel.com> <200906121834.30294.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <W6QSpRPwDx1bM%2BckKMKVCUsLU5A@XX1fo6zQUfC4h0jjRC6IBz3oNH4> <4A32CA38.4020806@root.org> <T9FuXPeMmy2nubyMLHIDUJ/9JBQ@XX1fo6zQUfC4h0jjRC6IBz3oNH4>
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The raw ACPICA source code is run through a converter (acpisrc) to "linuxiz=
e" the code before it is integrated into Linux.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru [mailto:rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru]
>Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 11:11 PM
>To: Nate Lawson; Jung-uk Kim
>Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org; Moore, Robert
>Subject: Re: [PATCH] acpidump: teach to disassemble arbitrary memory
>locations as AML code
>
>Nate, Jung-uk, good day.
>
>Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 02:35:52PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote:
>> I appreciate your work. What we need to do though is remove acpidump(8)
>> from the system and import Intel's acpidmp utility. It's included in the
>> ACPI-CA distribution and is functional enough that we can use it.
>
>OK, I'll try to take a look at it. But this is a future work;
>meanwhile, can we still extend acpidump in a way I propose. I have the
>updated patch that applies on top of the -CURRENT tree after the recent
>ACPICA import, but I have some troubles with 'make depend' inside
>usr.sbin/acpi/acpidb, so once I'll resolve them and test the stuff with
>full buildworld -- I'll post the patch as an update.
>
>Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 06:34:27PM -0400, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
>> On Friday 12 June 2009 06:02 pm, Moore, Robert wrote:
>> > Actually, we don't distribute an acpidump (yet) in ACPICA. The
>> > Linux version is part of the "pmtools" package.
>> >
>> > It is of course, linux-specific. I won't distribute it with ACPICA
>> > until we have an OS-independent version. It is on our list of
>> > things to-do.
>>
>> FYI, it won't be terribly hard to port it because we also use
>> /dev/mem. However, the source is acpisrc'ified and we cannot undo it
>> to make it compile on FreeBSD. :-(
>
>Haven't looked at the source yet, so probably the question is very dumb,
>but nevertheless: what do you mean by "acpisrc'ified"?
>
>And a general question: is there a VCS repository for the pmtools, or at
>least the download location with snapshots/releases? My Google-fu fails
>on this and moblin.org doesn't seem to have this stuff available.
>
>Thanks!
>--
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