From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexey Starikovskiy Subject: Re: new pmtools available for testing Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 19:40:36 +0300 Message-ID: <45647D84.9020101@linux.intel.com> References: <45634459.8040404@linux.intel.com> <1164203742.3721.346.camel@queen.suse.de> <4564607B.2050604@linux.intel.com> <1164209126.3721.363.camel@queen.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mga06.intel.com ([134.134.136.21]:4893 "EHLO orsmga101.jf.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755432AbWKVQkl (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:40:41 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1164209126.3721.363.camel@queen.suse.de> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: trenn@suse.de Cc: "Brown, Len" , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, "Moore, Robert" Thomas Renninger wrote: > 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. > > 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