acpidump going away?

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>As I understand, we are going to get rid of acpidump.
>so that we need to make Linux/ACPI dump all the acpi tables instead of
>acpidump.

I haven't heard of any push to get rid of acpidump, Len?


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Zhang, Rui
>Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 7:09 PM
>To: Moore, Robert
>Cc: Len Brown; linux-acpi
>Subject: RE: [PATCH 0/6] ACPI: acpi table management enhancement
>
>On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 09:51 -0600, Moore, Robert wrote:
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: Len Brown [mailto:lenb@xxxxxxxxxx]
>> >Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 3:21 PM
>> >To: Zhang, Rui
>> >Cc: Moore, Robert; linux-acpi
>> >Subject: RE: [PATCH 0/6] ACPI: acpi table management enhancement
>> >
>> >
>> >Bob,
>> >note that we already changed acpidump to get the inactive static
>> >tables.  We did this back when we were running into bugs with "invalid"
>> >XSDT's and found some machines needed to revert back to using the RSDTs.
>> >
>> >Indeed, while I think we nailed some of the major offenders,
>> >But I suspect we still have some bug compatibility detective work
>> >to do in that area.
>> >
>>
>> I wasn't aware that acpidump can now get the tables from the RSDT also.
>This is good.
>>
>> As I mentioned, I would like to eventually pull acpidump into the core
>ACPICA code and make it OS-independent at the same time.
>>
>>
>> >So what Rui is doing here in exposing inactive tables it to get
>> >/sys/firmware/acpi/tables to have the equal capability
>> >of the existing acpidump kvm reader.
>> >
>>
>> I was pointing out that there is significant overhead in acquiring these
>unused tables.
>well, it's true.
>
>>  I'm not sure I understand exactly why this is desired, since acpidump
>already does this.
>>
>there must be some communication problems. :)
>As I understand, we are going to get rid of acpidump.
>so that we need to make Linux/ACPI dump all the acpi tables instead of
>acpidump.
>If this is true, I'm afraid we still need this patch although I don't
>like it neither. :(
>
>Len, can you verify this?
>
>thanks,
>rui
>>

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