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List:       opensolaris-tools-discuss
Subject:    Re: [tools-discuss] acpi utils
From:       Dan Mick <dan.mick () sun ! com>
Date:       2007-08-28 22:35:51
Message-ID: 46D4A347.7090306 () sun ! com
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Aubrey Li wrote:
> On 8/28/07, Dan Mick <dan.mick@sun.com> wrote:
>> Aubrey Li wrote:
>>> On 8/28/07, Dan Mick <dan.mick@sun.com> wrote:
>>>> Aubrey Li wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there existing acpi utils like (acpidump, iasl) on opensolaris? It
>>>>> seems not to be included in the distro. If not, I recently port some
>>>>> of them to solaris successfully. Let me know if I can contribute them,
>>>>> thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> -Aubrey
>>>>> Intel OpenSolaris Team.
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>>>> We use iasl internally, built from the ACPICA sources we integrate.  It's not
>>>> something we've ever productized.
>>>>
>>> iasl and acpidump are two important acpi tools to find and fix some
>>> acpi table issues,
>> I know about the first; acpidump is new to me.
>>
>>> why not open these tools to users?
>> Probably effort.
>>
>>> Is there any license issue?
>> Well, they're Intel tools, so I suppose I should ask you...
>>
>> certainly there's no technical reason or objection.  It's all about effort and
>> legality.
>>
> iasl has an intel's License, I'll figure out if it can be integrated
> into solaris.
> acpidump is released under GPLv2, since it's a user space utility, I
> think it should be no problem, how is other GPL'd program integrated
> into solaris, how is acpidump integrated, right?

OK, sure.
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