From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Mika Westerberg (mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com)" Subject: Re: Linux ACPI DSDT table editing tools Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:30:59 +0200 Message-ID: <20130220093059.GP2439@intel.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mga03.intel.com ([143.182.124.21]:9292 "EHLO mga03.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757754Ab3BTJ05 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Feb 2013 04:26:57 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: "Pallala, Ramakrishna" Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "Zhang, Rui" , "Brown, Len" , "linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 07:36:32AM +0000, Pallala, Ramakrishna wrote: > I am looking for tools(Linux or w*****s) for editing ACPI tables. > Can you advise me some good tools. Also I would like to know how BIOS > engineers populate the ACPI tables? Which tools they use? Dunno about the BIOS engineers but I use tools from acpica (acpica.org). There is ASL (dis)assembler and other useful tools in that. In addition there is tools/power/acpi/acpidump.c in the kernel source tree which is extremely useful.