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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).