On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 21:46 +0900, Mattia Dongili wrote: > May I ask what you use them for? [...] > have you got some use case for it?).
We (the Ubuntu kernel team) use acpiexec to debug DSDT's. We're now starting work on some automated BIOS diagnostics tools that will use acpiexec to collect information on systems in the field, which is why we'd like to see acpiexec packaged. We don't have any immediate need for acpisrc. If you'd like to enable acpiexec but not acpisrc, that's fine. > Also, acpiexec is probably unusable anywhere but x86. Perhaps then, some different binary packaging scheme is warranted?... My patch crammed the extra tools into the 'iasl' package just for the sake of expediency. If you'd prefer to ship acpiexec in its own separate (x86-only) package instead, that's fine too. Thanks for considering it! -Kamal
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