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On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Michael Smith wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 2:20 PM, Nate Lawson wrote:
> >> I don't think the tools should be part of the base system.
> >
> > Ok, that does sounds like opposition.  Care to give a reason?
>
> I tend to think that the system as a whole should be more modular.
>
> The tools aren't relevant to the bulk of the userbase, nor necessary
> for its day-to-day operation.
>
> So there's no good reason to lump them with the system, and a few
> good reasons not to...

We already have acpidump and amldb.  I'm merely updating them.  Were you
against those also?  I see them as relevant to the userbase in that the
first step of debugging user problems is usually to get an ASL dump.  The
more we can improve this process, the more we can improve the round trip
time for user debugging.

-Nate
