Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 15:15:46 -0700 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Current, ACPI and my Compac EVO N800c Message-ID: <200305162215.h4GMFkPF062168@bitblocks.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 May 2003 15:17:41 MDT." <20030516.151741.62579008.imp@bsdimp.com>
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> : > How does one create a file from the aml?
> :
> : If the aml is in a file foo.aml you can do this:
> : acpidump -f foo.aml > foo.asl
> : To read your machine's DSDT tables and decode aml in it
> : acpidump > foo.asl
>
> hmmm, I want to hack the output acpidump's foo.asl and create the
> aml. I get confused over the acronyms sometime. Basically, I have
> source, and I wanna create something I can load in the loader.
aml == acpi machine language
asl == acpi source language
you need iasl from the ports/devel/acpicatools. Something like
iasl foo.asl
will create acpi_dsdt.aml. You may need some options
depending on your asl file (for example, -i to ignore errors
and create acpi_dstl.aml in any case).
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