[PATCH] acpidump: teach to disassemble arbitrary memory locations as AML code

Eygene Ryabinkin rea-fbsd at codelabs.ru
Mon Jun 8 05:46:22 UTC 2009


Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 09:12:12AM +0400, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote:
> It is not uncommon when some chunks of the AML code are loaded by DSDT
> from the memory locations that aren't part of the DSDT itself, but one
> wants to see what's inside.  It can be achieved with 'dd' and 'iasl',
> but it is better to implement this machinery inside acpidump to ease the
> life of both users and develepers that needs to see the full picture
> of the ACPI stuff from foreign machines.
[...]

Hmm, seems like the patch was a bit corrupted, so attaching it instead
of making inline.  I had also submitted PR for this stuff:
  http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=135349
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