RE: new pmtools available for testing

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I can take a look at it early next year.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-acpi-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-acpi-
> owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Len Brown
> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 10:20 AM
> To: Alexey Starikovskiy; Moore, Robert
> Cc: Mattia Dongili; linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: new pmtools available for testing
> 
> Bob,
> Any chance you could tweak the C acpixtract so it can handle
> the parameter format of the old perl script?
> 
> I like the newer way better, but it looks like  backwards
compatibility
> is within our grasp without mucking it up, so I think we should do it.
> 
> On Sunday 10 December 2006 12:11, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> > Mattia Dongili wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 09:24:25PM +0300, Alexey Starikovskiy
wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> acpixtract perl-script is being replaced by C xtract utility.
Please
> test.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Hello, I'm considering an update to the acpidump Debian package,
so is
> > > this version (20061121) available online somewhere?
> > > Should it just appear in Len's kernel.org FTP when it's ready?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > Len is about to put 20061130 version out, with acpixtract from ACPI
CA
> > package.
> 
> Well, I pushed this up to the ftp site, and it is functional, but the
> problem
> is that the new acpixtract from ACPICA has different parameters, so it
> isn't backwards compatible with the old per acpixtract.
> 
> the examples in pmtools/README include invocations like this:
>     $ cat email | ./acpixtract DSDT > DSDT
>     $ cat email | ./acpixtract FACP | ./acpitbl
>     $ ./acpixtract FACP acpidump.out > FACP.bin
>     $ ./acpixtract -n 3 SSDT acpidump.out > SSDT3.bin
> 
> but the new acpixtract looks like this:
> 
> # ./acpixtract FACP acpidump.out > FACP.bin
> # cat FACP.bin
> Could not open FACP
> #
> # ./acpixtract -n 3 SSDT acpidump.out > SSDT3.bin
> # cat SSDT3.bin
> Usage: acpixtract [option] <InputFile>
> 
> Extract binary ACPI tables from text acpidump output
> Default invocation extracts all DSDTs and SSDTs
> Version 20060324
> 
> Options:
>  -a                    Extract all tables, not just DSDT/SSDT
>  -l                    List table summaries, do not extract
>  -s<Signature>         Extract all tables named <Signature>
> 
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