Re: [RFC PATCH] Exporting extra tables for machines without /dev/mem

Al Stone
2015-08-05T20:25:06Z

On 07/21/2015 07:31 AM, Graeme Gregory wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I thought I would send this patch as an RFC. It is something I did when
> another linaro engineer was modifying acpica-tools to not require /dev/mem.
>
> It exports the 3 tables that are not currenly exported in sysfs.
>
> Currently I do not think there is any user of this because acpica-tools can
> can recover the information in the other tables without these three being
> exported, fwts also works fine without the patch so the only use case I have
> is the vague "might be useful for debug"

Right -- and I personally would like to have that debug use case. AFAICT,
the RSDP and RSDT/XSDT are recreated by acpidump; i.e., based on knowledge
of the mapped tables, acpidump builds what it believes these tables should
look like. But, the /dev/mem mappings would give me what ACPI is actually
using (what was directly passed to the kernel). Should there be a bug in
table mapping or ACPI startup, this info might help.

--
ciao,
al
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Al Stone
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Red Hat, Inc.
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