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

[Jung-uk Kim]

On Wednesday 17 June 2009 02:09 pm, Moore, Robert wrote:
> I should point out that acpidump was never "linuxed", it was simply
> written as native Linux code.

I was afraid of that. :-(

IIRC, you once said (on ACPICA devel ML), you may include it in the 
ACPICA distribution if "read foo table from memory" code moves to OSL 
interface.  AFAICT, the OSL interface already exists, i.e., 
AcpiOsReadMemory().  Last time I checked, acpidump from pmtools was 
just reading it via /dev/mem instead of using the OSL interface, 
though.

FYI...

Jung-uk Kim

> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: owner-freebsd-acpi at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> >acpi at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Moore, Robert
> >Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 10:06 AM
> >To: rea-fbsd at codelabs.ru; Nate Lawson; Jung-uk Kim
> >Cc: freebsd-acpi at freebsd.org
> >Subject: RE: [PATCH] acpidump: teach to disassemble arbitrary
> > memory locations as AML code
> >
> >The raw ACPICA source code is run through a converter (acpisrc) to
> >"linuxize" the code before it is integrated into Linux.
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: rea-fbsd at codelabs.ru [mailto:rea-fbsd at codelabs.ru]
> >>Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 11:11 PM
> >>To: Nate Lawson; Jung-uk Kim
> >>Cc: freebsd-acpi at 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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