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

[Eygene Ryabinkin]

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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