WDTT

[Nate Lawson]

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