RE: Fixing broken DSDT - code suggestions for comment please!

[Nate Lawson <nate-Y6VGUYTwhu0@public.gmane.org>]

If you're interested in seeing how we did it in FreeBSD, see
src/sys/dev/acpica/Osd/OsdDebug.c and the #ifdef ACPI_DEBUGGER in the
ACPI-CA code that we added.

-Nate

On Wed, 26 May 2004, Moore, Robert wrote:
> There *is* an interactive AML debugger in the ACPI CA package.  However,
> it needs to be integrated into Linux.
>
> As far as I can tell, the reason it hasn't been done yet is because the
> whole concept of "interactive kernel debugging" is rather foreign to
> Linux.
>
> Bob
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Yu, Luming
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 7:36 PM
> > To: marmon-GymH4r+vMzPQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org; ACPI Developers
> > Cc: linux-acpi
> > Subject: RE: [ACPI] Fixing broken DSDT - code suggestions for comment
> > please!
> >
> >  >
> > >I've posted this question before, if its just a question that shall
> go
> > >unanswered someone please let me know so I stop reposting it
> different
> > >ways:
> > >
> > >Where would start searching for information on debugging a compiled
> > >DSDT?  The iasl compiler believes it is fine, 0 errors, 0 warnings;
> but
> > >I kernel panic in the one_complete_parse phase when booting using the
> > >custom dsdt table.
> > >
> >
> >   AFAIK, there is no AML debugging tool under linux. To debug the
> DSDT,
> > you have to add some statement like "store ( xxx, debug) " in your ASL
> > code.
> >
> >   PS, can you post the detailed message of the panic.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Luming
>
>
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