Re: RE: acpidump replaces acpidmp

[Len Brown <len.brown-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 17:32 -0400, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 August 2005 12:23 pm, Brown, Len wrote:
> > Mats,
> > Does the latest acpidump work for you now?
> > can we obsolete /proc/acpi/fadt,dsdt?
> 
> pmtools-20050804 doesn't work at all on ia64, because
> the RSDP doesn't live where you expect it.  We export
> /sys/firmware/efi/systab with the addresses you want.
> 
> The attached patch adds this, fixes a bunch of
> documentation errors, and fixes some broken if/else
> blocking.  There are still a number of warnings when
> building on ia64; I didn't bother to fix those, sorry.

Thanks Bjorn.
Alexey included your patch in pmtools-20050823,
and has now tested the latest on IA64 systems with
and without /sys/firmware/efi.

http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/utils/pmtools-20050823.tar.gz

cheers,
-Len




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