From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cam-smtp0.cambridge.arm.com (fw-tnat.cambridge.arm.com [217.140.96.140]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ml01.01.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5B51F80373 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2017 15:49:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from E111747.Emea.Arm.com (e111747.emea.arm.com [10.1.30.67]) by cam-smtp0.cambridge.arm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id v29Nnlco010779; Thu, 9 Mar 2017 23:49:48 GMT From: evan.lloyd@arm.com To: edk2-devel@ml01.01.org Cc: Jaben Carsey , Ruiyu Ni Leif Lindholm , Michael D Kinney , Jiewen Yao , Dong Wei Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 23:49:41 +0000 Message-Id: <20170309234942.11956-2-evan.lloyd@arm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.8.3 In-Reply-To: <20170309234942.11956-1-evan.lloyd@arm.com> References: <20170309234942.11956-1-evan.lloyd@arm.com> Subject: [edk2-staging][PATCH 1/2] ShellPkg: acpiview branch on edk2-staging X-BeenThere: edk2-devel@lists.01.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: EDK II Development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2017 23:49:54 -0000 From: Evan Lloyd Add a Readme file to initiate a branch for acpiview on edk2-staging. The branch is intended to allow collaborative updating of acpiview for platforms beyond the initial ARM implementation. Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0 Signed-off-by: Evan Lloyd --- Readme.md | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 53 insertions(+) diff --git a/Readme.md b/Readme.md new file mode 100755 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a64b941cee1aed7cd51b5db06843535a359c057 --- /dev/null +++ b/Readme.md @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +################################################################################ +# ReadMe.MD for acpiview staging branch.. +# Contents: +# 1. Introduction +# 2. Branch Owner +# 3. Feature Summary +# 4. Timeline +# 5. Related Modules +# 6. Related Links +# 7. Misc +# +############################################################################### + +1. Introduction + This acpiview staging branch is requested by Evan Lloyd + following suggestions from Jiewen Yao in response + to a patch submitted to the edk2-devel mailing list. + The aim is to allow collaborative development of acpiview for all platforms. + +2. Branch Owners + Evan Lloyd + Jiewen Yao + +3. Feature Summary + Acpiview allows examination of ACPI table contents from the UEFI Shell. + This can help with investigations, especially at that stage where the tables + are not enabling an OS to boot. The program is not exhaustive, and only + encapsulates detailed knowledge of a limited number of table types. + There is no immediate intent to provide disassembly of AML tables. + + Default behaviour is to display the content of all tables installed. + 'Known' table types will be parsed and displayed with descriptions and + field values. Where appropriate a degree of consistency checking is + done and errors may be reported in the output. + Other table types will be displayed as an array of Hexadecimal bytes. + + To facilitate debugging, the -t and -b options can be used to generate a + binary file image of a table that can be copied elsewhere for + investigation using tools such as those provided by acpica.org. This is + especially relevant for AML type tables like DSDT and SSDT. + +4. Timeline + N/A + +5. Related Modules + ShellPkg + +6. Related Links + N/A + +7. Misc + N/A + -- Guid("CE165669-3EF3-493F-B85D-6190EE5B9759")