Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:32:02 -0800 From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> Cc: "freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org" <freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: WDTT Message-ID: <496E2192.5030906@root.org> In-Reply-To: <496E1DE0.5080305@icyb.net.ua> References: <4968B843.8020108@icyb.net.ua> <4911F71203A09E4D9981D27F9D8308580E4EA343@orsmsx503.amr.corp.intel.com> <496DB197.5020100@icyb.net.ua> <4911F71203A09E4D9981D27F9D8308580E4EA9B3@orsmsx503.amr.corp.intel.com> <496E0F90.3000507@icyb.net.ua> <4911F71203A09E4D9981D27F9D8308580E4EA9D1@orsmsx503.amr.corp.intel.com> <496E1B90.8080406@root.org> <496E1DE0.5080305@icyb.net.ua>
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Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 14/01/2009 19:06 Nate Lawson said the following:
>> You need both the -t and -d flags. See the man page. Maybe that should
>> be made the default, although I didn't like the idea of a command
>> dumping out pages of output when run with no flags.
>
> Nate,
>
> This doesn't work for me, at least on stable/7.
> The tables are not "dumped", they are "pretty-printed", but that happens
> only for a subset of tables - for unknown tables just a standard header
> is printed, the actual data is not.
>
> And it seems that while there is a way to dump "raw" DSDT, there is no
> way to dump other tables in a raw form.
I see. Yeah, perhaps you could add a patch that does a hex dump of
unknown tables or a way to specify a table id and get the raw binary
data. Perhaps -i id would be good.
Example:
acpidump -t
See that WDTT is interesting.
acpidump -i WDTT -o wdtt.bin
What do you think?
--
Nate
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