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Subject: [acpi-jp 2520] Re: Importing acpicatools
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> > I plan to do the following:
> > 1. Import usr.sbin/acpi/iasl based on ports/devel/acpicatools
> > 2. Import usr.sbin/acpi/acpicadb based on ports/devel/acpicatools
> > 3. Change acpidump to just output the DSDT.  If the user requests a dump
> > of the ASL, call iasl -d to do this.

Ok. (Btw, Nate, how much did you get everything from me already for this?)

> > 4. Remove usr.sbin/acpi/amldb
> >
> > Comments on this approach?  At the end, acpicatools port would no longer
> > be needed but it could still be useful to provide amldb support.

Was this a license issue or just code issue? (I forgot, if I ever knew)

> Sounds good.
> Wish list to acpidump.
> 
> 1.More table parsing, other than DSDT.
> 2.Dump SSDT to file, not only DSDT.

Agreed. I found that out after I had stripped most of the stuff from
acpidump that we couldn't get everything anymore that we used to get.
(Does this make sense? :-)

Mark

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