Re: new pmtools available for testing

[Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey.y.starikovskiy@linux.intel.com>]

Thomas Renninger wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 17:36 +0300, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
>   
>> Thomas Renninger wrote:
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>>> On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 21:24 +0300, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
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>>>       
>>>> 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.
>
>   
New utility is names 'xtract' so it does not clash with 'acpixtract' 
either perl-script or ACPICA utility.
If are used to acpixtract, no need to change your habits. If you somehow 
tired of crippled interface, you could try new utility.
> 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..
>   
no problem at all.

Regards,
    Alex