Review: Add support for additional ACPI table dump for acpidump(8)

[Takanori Watanabe]

In message <4D885078.70007 at freebsd.org>, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>on 22/03/2011 06:43 Takanori Watanabe said the following:
>> This patch adds support capability to dump Alert Standard Format(ASF!)
>> and Simple Boot format(BOOT) table to acpidump(8).
>
>Not picking on this specific proposal, but my opinion that in general we would
>be better off if we could add acpixtract-compatible output format to acpidump.
>We already import acpixtract sources, it is maintained by ACPICA guys and
>supports a lot of useful formats.

Yes. iasl supporting many useful formats for this.

>I even had a half-baked patch for that.
>http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/acpi-dump-xtract.diff

That should be better, I think after I send previous mail, though
need not to drop current support of fixed tables interpretation.