On Wednesday, August 05, 2015 02:25:06 PM Al Stone wrote: > 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.
If my memory serves me right, Lv has been doing something in that area. Lv? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
