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Subject: [edk2-staging][PATCH 1/2] ShellPkg: acpiview branch on edk2-staging
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From: Evan Lloyd <evan.lloyd@arm.com>
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 <evan.lloyd@arm.com>
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+################################################################################
+# 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 <evan.lloyd@arm.com>
+ following suggestions from Jiewen Yao <jiewen.yao@intel.com> 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 <evan.lloyd@arm.com>
+ Jiewen Yao <iiewen.yao@intel.com>
+
+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
+
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