Re: [PATCH 25/70] ACPICA: Update disassembler for DMAR table changes

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On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:

> Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > But there is actually quite a bit in ACPICA that is not in Linux.
> > The most useful, from a debugging point of view, might be the
> > hooking the ACPICA debug code into the kernel debugger --
> > something that Luming did about 2 years ago.  However, as the
> > debugger was not part of the Linux kernel tree, the changes
> > didn't really have a good path to a customer...
> 
> kgdb supports remote function calls, so if you just make a callable
> interface and perhaps supply a standard macro file users could call
> it.

at some point we need to seriously consider "productizing"
the ACPICA hooks to kgdb.  I guess this is one for the to-do list.

-len

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