On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 05:44:01PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 12:26:32PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > Doesn't /sys/firmware/acpi give you raw access to the correct tables > > already? > > > > And isn't there some other tool that dumps the raw ACPI tables? I > > thought the acpi developers used it all the time when debugging things > > with users. > > Dumping raw ACPI tables isn't adequate - _SUN might be a complex ACPI > method with multiple reads and writes to raw hardware, and we really > don't want to do that in userspace. The only way to do this reliably is > in the kernel. But it really isn't, as the firmware kit has proven... thanks, greg k-h - 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
