Hi, Thomas > From: linux-acpi-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-acpi-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thomas Renninger > Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 9:17 PM > > Hi Rafael, > > these are tools we already have packaged in our acpica package for quite > a while: > - acpi_validate (disassemble and recompile dumped ACPI tables, or a > provided acpidump file. It references all SSDTs/DSDTs, > which people often do not know or is cumbersome to do). > - ec_access is the userspace tool for the ec_sys EC debug driver. > Formerly only the thinkpad_acpi driver could do this. > This got proplery moved into a ec_sys debug driver and > ec_access can monitor changes e.g. every second of the > EC registers, nicely shows them to find out about > EC problems. > > IMO both perfectly fit into tools/power/acpi. > Other candidates could be: > - acpi_genl (Monitor ACPI events) > https://01.org/linux-acpi/utilities > - wmidump This one can interpret WMI objects from a raw _WDG > buffer (part of DSDT/SSDT BIOS code). > > I didn't use the last one often, but it seem to be really useful if you > implement ACPI WMI stuff. > > If you agree with these patches, can you please queue them up for the > next kernel release, please. > > Tested: Created a tarball with tools/power/acpi directory added and > include/acpi copied into and build them separately as a package via > our build service via: > make -C %{acpi_tools_dir} CFLAGS="-DDEFINE_ALTERNATE_TYPES > -DACPI_USE_SYSTEM_INTTYPES=0 -I ../../include %{optflags}" > make -C %{acpi_tools_dir} install DESTDIR="%{buildroot}" mandir=%{_mandir} Please also do the tools build tests with the DEBUG environment switched. Something like: make DEBUG=true .... make DEBUG=false ... Thanks and best regards -Lv > > > Thanks a lot, > > Thomas > > -- > 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
