I don't know what's going on here. I wrote acpixtract in C in order to get away from Perl and Perl issues. I certainly hope that we don't have yet another version of acpixtract. I don't mind changing things such as the interface, if everyone agrees it's for the better. But it seems like an incredible waste of energy to keep rewriting these kinds of utilities. > -----Original Message----- > From: Alexey Starikovskiy [mailto:alexey.y.starikovskiy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 8:41 AM > To: trenn@xxxxxxx > Cc: Brown, Len; linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Moore, Robert > Subject: Re: new pmtools available for testing > > Thomas Renninger wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 17:36 +0300, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: > > > >> Thomas Renninger wrote: > >> > >>> On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 21:24 +0300, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> acpixtract perl-script is being replaced by C xtract utility. Please > test. > >>>> Advances are: > >>>> - Perl not required :) > >>>> - no 64k output limit of perl-script > >>>> - --list option shows all tables in the file > >>>> - unified interface with acpidump > >>>> - faster(?) > >>>> > >>>> Thanks in advance, > >>>> > >>>> > >>> Is this acpixtract that already existed in ACPICA since some time and > >>> now moved to pmtools? > >>> > >>> > >> Nope, it's duplicated effort. > >> > > > > Hmm, you should talk to (I think acpixtract C prog came from) Bob? > > Someone should decide which should be the final one everybody should > > use... > > If one distri or application starts to package and use the one, others > > start to use the other, we might have compatibility problems in some > > scripts in future. > > > > > New utility is names 'xtract' so it does not clash with 'acpixtract' > either perl-script or ACPICA utility. > If are used to acpixtract, no need to change your habits. If you somehow > tired of crippled interface, you could try new utility. > > The linuxfirmwarekit makes use of ACPICA's acpixtract AFAIK (hardcoded > > by something like system("acpixtract acpidump");). > > I also packaged this one into SUSE pmtools package (since SUSE 10.1?). > > -> I'd prefer to stick to the ACPICA's acpixtract.. > > > no problem at all. > > Regards, > Alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
