= Proposed Self Contained Change: ACPICA Tools Update = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/AcpicaTools
Change owner(s): Al Stone ahs3@redhat.com
For developers working with the ACPI subsystem, there are tools available from the reference implementation at http://www.acpica.org. These tools have been restructured over time and the current Fedora packages as a result contain either outdated versions or do not make available a complete set of tools. We propose an acpica-tools package that replaces both the existing iasl package and the the existing pmtools package in order to make all current tools available, and make it more straightforward in the future to keep them up-to- date.
== Detailed description == If a developer is working on ACPI tables for a given system, they can use the existing iasl and pm-tools packages to create and modify ACPI tables. However, there is an reference implementation of ACPI at http://acpica.org that provides a significant number of additional tools that have never been included in Fedora before -- for example, tools that allow one to create an ACPI table and execute the methods contained in the table in user space, instead of having to modify existing tables. We would propose adding all of these new tools (acpixtract, acpidebug, ...) in the new package.
Further, pmtools provides the acpdiump tool that used to live at http://lesswatts.org. That site has now been abandoned by the upstream developer and subsumed into the acpica.org toolset. Hence, there is no longer an upstream for the old acpidump, but there is a shiny new version available from acpica.org. We would propose therefore replacing pmtools with the proposed new package.
Finally, the old packaging did not run any of the test cases provided by the upstream developers. After some work by Linaro (see linaro.org), these tests have all been brought up to date and the new packaging for acpica-tools now runs the test suites in order to ensure the tools are functional.
== Scope == Proposal owners: The majority of this work is already done (please see BZ#904843). The iasl and pmtools packages will need to be deprecated and/or removed. The acpica-tools package will need additional updates to stay in step with upstream, complete review, and be included into the git infrastructure properly.
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