James Walker wrote: > I'm sponsoring this familiarity case for Pat Bredenberg. The requested > release binding is minor. The man pages have been posted in the materials > directory. > > Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.68 02/23/09 SMI > This information is Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems > 1. Introduction > 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: > pmtools > 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: > Author: Pat Bredenberg > 1.3 Date of This Document: > 25 August, 2009 > 4. Technical Description > > Summary > ======= > > pmtools[1] provides utilities to access, extract, and convert ACPI power > management tables to a human readable format. This allows the user to > directly obtain these tables to view what ACPI information is presented > to the kernel by the BIOS. The tables provide an amalgamation of > information about a given platform. For example, the kernel uses this > data (when possible) to define a platform's NUMA configuration by making > use of the SRAT (System Resource Affinity Table) and the SLIT (System > Locality Information Table). > > pmtools 20071116 will be integrated into the SFW consolidation as part > of this proposal, and will be installed as SUNWpmtools. This project > requests a minor release binding. > > Note: pmtools is architecture specific. Only i386 packages will be > delivered. > >
Is it really necessary to use the "pmtools" name? None of the commands seem to use this name. There are many other things that might eventually be included in a collection of "pm tools", including some we already have (powertop comes to mind), and some that we will want for SPARC as well. It seems a shame to burn the name for such a small specific thing, when it is really an ACPI-specific set of commands. The only place pmtools shows up on the referenced url is in the name of the tar file ... thanks, sarito > Dependencies > ============ > > None > > Interfaces > ========== > > Exported Interfaces Classification Comment > ------------------- -------------- ------------------- > SUNWpmtools Uncommitted Package (i386 only) > > /usr/bin/acpidump Uncommitted Command > /usr/bin/acpixtract Uncommitted Command > /usr/bin/madt Uncommitted Command > > Imported Interfaces Classification Comment > ------------------- -------------- ------------------- > None > > Reference Documents > =================== > > [1] http://lesswatts.org/projects/acpi/utilities.php > > 6. Resources and Schedule > 6.4. Steering Committee requested information > 6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name: > SFW > 6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack > 6.6. ARC Exposure: open > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-arc mailing list > opensolaris-arc at opensolaris.org >
