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> > > - > 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 - 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