>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 >> -- 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
