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Subject: [acpi-jp 2540] RE: Importing acpicatools
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On 28-Jul-2003 Nate Lawson wrote:
> I wish to improve the support for the acpi tools included with FreeBSD.
> The goal is to reuse as much as possible from Intel's acpica.  It appears
> that iasl and acpicadb have become good enough to depend on them for our
> primary userland acpi tools.
> 
> 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.
> 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.

Would this remove stuff like the MADT parsing support from acpidump?

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