Re: Re: acpidump replaces acpidmp

[Thomas Renninger <trenn-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>]

Voluspa wrote:
> 24 -r--------  1 root root   24136 Jul 27 14:47 dsdt
> 28 -rw-r--r--  1 root root   24743 Jul 27 14:52 dsdt.acpidump
> 
> OK, I now know that acpidump gives me both fadt and dsdt and something
> more, hence the difference. But this is usability madness; 1) The
> documentation of program switches, Both README and source, swing between
> mildly accurate and inaccurate; 2) Having to dump/decode in several
> steps here (not really knowing if you've made an error) and then later
> in iasl as well.
> 
> Compared to just copying dsdt from /proc and following all the tutorials
> online on how to modify it, this hackery is not sane.
> 
It's not that bad:
(using the old acpidmp. I expect it works the same with acpidump, but
I couldn't get any output with my short tries ...)

acpidmp > /tmp/acpidmp
acpixtract dsdt /tmp/acpidmp >/tmp/dsdt
acpixtract ssdt /tmp/acpidmp >/tmp/ssdt

iasl -d /tmp/dsdt
if you have a ssdt:
iasl -d /tmp/ssdt

Now you can edit /tmp/ssdt.dsl and /tmp/dsdt.dsl

     Thomas


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