Re: new pmtools available for testing

[Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>]

On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 17:36 +0300, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> Thomas Renninger wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 21:24 +0300, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> >   
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> acpixtract perl-script is being replaced by C xtract utility. Please test.
> >> Advances are:
> >>     - Perl not required :)
> >>     - no 64k output limit of perl-script
> >>     - --list option shows all tables in the file
> >>     - unified interface with acpidump
> >>     - faster(?)
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >>     
> > Is this acpixtract that already existed in ACPICA since some time and
> > now moved to pmtools?
> >   
> Nope, it's duplicated effort.

Hmm, you should talk to (I think acpixtract C prog came from) Bob?
Someone should decide which should be the final one everybody should
use...
If one distri or application starts to package and use the one, others
start to use the other, we might have compatibility problems in some
scripts in future.

The linuxfirmwarekit makes use of ACPICA's acpixtract AFAIK (hardcoded
by something like system("acpixtract acpidump");).
I also packaged this one into SUSE pmtools package (since SUSE 10.1?).
-> I'd prefer to stick to the ACPICA's acpixtract...

Thanks for any clarifications on this one,

   Thomas