Re: bin/43121: acpidump(8) does not output all SSDT entries

[Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/43121; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: bin/43121: acpidump(8) does not output all SSDT entries
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 01:22:29 +0300

 On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 10:05:03PM +0000, Bernd Ernesti wrote:
 >  On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 09:50:04PM +0000, Christoph Egger wrote:
 >  >  > In the long-run the best solution is probably to replace acpidump(8) 
 > with a
 >  >  > similar utility from the Intel ACPICA reference implementation.
 >  >  
 >  >  I did that in -current month ago. acpidump(8) in -current uses iasl.
 >  
 >  That won't help anything if it is only for -current since he is using 
 > netbsd-5
 >  acpidump(8) in netbsd-5 is broken to a state that it core dumps for some 
 > BIOS.
 
 This was filed for a third party. I am waiting for a confirmation that the
 "-t" flag was used with acpidump(8).
 
 But a pull-up request for 5.0 should be done nevertheless (a non-intrusive
 update used only for debugging).