This is the interface that you want to use:
ACPI_STATUS
AcpiGetFirmwareTable (
ACPI_STRING Signature,
UINT32 Instance,
UINT32 Flags,
ACPI_TABLE_HEADER **TablePointer)
Also, we recently added support for DBGP in the table headers
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-acpi-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-acpi-
> owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joel Bretz
> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 2:23 PM
> To: linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: AcpiGetTable( ? )
>
> Hi,
> I need some information that lives in the DBGP and the HPET Tables.. I
> don't see a way that I can get either of those tables.
>
> I'm guessing that
> AcpiGetTable(ACPI_TABLE_TYPE,UINT32,ACPI_BUFFER*)
> provides the functionality that I need, but I can not find the correct
> table types for either of those.
>
> I'm using a slightly older version of acpica (acpica-unix-20060317),
but
> I didn't see entries for
> ACPI_TABLE_DGBP or ACPI_TABLE_HPET
> in actypes.h in the latest version either...
>
> Is there a way that I can get the information from these 2 tables?
>
> Thanks,
> Joel
>
> //--------------------------------
> Joel Bretz
> Hardware Engineer
> Hewlett Packard, Systems VLSI Lab
> email: joel.bretz@xxxxxx
> //--------------------------------
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