Re: Dragonfly & acpi

[Hiten Pandya <hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

YONETANI Tomokazu wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:39:14AM +0100, Hiten Pandya wrote:
>
> > Matthew Dillon wrote:
> >
> > >   Hiten, what's the copyright on that tool set?  Is it something we can
> > >   (or should) put in base?
> >
> > 	We can make it a port override, shouldn't be a problem.  I can
> > 	coordinate with Yonetani Tomokazu to commit the acpiconf(8)
> > 	utility from FreeBSD-5, which should handle the suspend and
> > 	resuming, and other ACPI related utilities.
> >
> > 	Most (if not all) are BSD licensed and were developed by the
> > 	Japanese ACPI project and improved upon by Nate Lawson of the
> > 	FreeBSD project; so in summary, it shouldn't be a problem.
>
>
> Here's "just compiles and works for me" patch, in case someone need them,
> to bring the tools from recent FreeBSD-CURRENT, add /dev/acpi to /dev/MAKEDEV
> for acpiconf, and update /etc/rc.suspend and /etc/rc.resume .
>
> $ fetch http://les.ath.cx/DragonFly/in-tree-acpicatools.patch.gz
> $ zcat in-tree-acpicatools.patch.gz | patch -d /usr/src -p0
>
> TODO/BUGS:
> - bring in other endian-related functions from FreeBSD-CURRENT
>   and clean up the borrowed functions in acpiconf/acpi.c .

	Just as a note, I have got the endian functions and UUID
	stuff ported already, once I power-up my test box I can
	hand them over to you.  I needed them for an application
	I was writing, about two weeks ago.

	Regards,

		-Hiten
		hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx