Alright we have enough dumps for now so please stop eating all my bandwidth :-)

On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 10:54:47PM -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote:
> Jordan Hargrave (your friendly IPMI developer) has been plugging away at ACPI.
> He has written an ASL parser and an AML interpreter.  Jordan also wrote a
> userland tool that dumps the ACPI tables and all kinds of other things.  We 
> can
> then replay these dumps to test the ASL parser and AML interpreter.  In order
> to be able to test the AML interpreter we need as many ACPI dumps as possible.
> This is where *you* come in...
> 
> You can find the binary and source at:
> http://www.peereboom.us/acpi.tgz
> I added the source code + silly makefile so that you can roll your own
> acpiscan.  Simply delete the binary I provided (compiled on 3.8-current) and
> run "make".
> 
> As root run the following command:
> ./acpiscan -save descriptive_name_of_box
> 
> example: ./acpiscan -save dell_pe1850
> 
> This will generate 3 files:
> dell_pe1850.DSDT
> dell_pe1850.FACP
> dell_pe1850.RSDT
> 
> Yes, acpiscan WILL core dump at the end.  Its supposed to!
> 
> Tar and compress these files and send them to jordan@ and [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> Thanks,
> /marco

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