Fedora 18 Update: acpica-tools-20130823-2.fc18

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-15535
2013-08-29 21:15:04
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Name        : acpica-tools
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 20130823
Release     : 2.fc18
URL         : https://www.acpica.org/
Summary     : ACPICA tools for the development and debug of ACPI tables
Description :
The ACPI Component Architecture (ACPICA) project provides an OS-independent
reference implementation of the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
Specification (ACPI).  ACPICA code contains those portions of ACPI meant to
be directly integrated into the host OS as a kernel-resident subsystem, and
a small set of tools to assist in developing and debugging ACPI tables.

This package contains only the user-space tools needed for ACPI table
development, not the kernel implementation of ACPI.  The following commands
are installed:
   -- iasl: compiles ASL (ACPI Source Language) into AML (ACPI Machine
      Language), suitable for inclusion as a DSDT in system firmware.
      It also can disassemble AML, for debugging purposes.
   -- acpibin: performs basic operations on binary AML files (e.g.,
      comparison, data extraction)
   -- acpidump: write out the current contents of ACPI tables
   -- acpiexec: simulate AML execution in order to debug method definitions
   -- acpihelp: display help messages describing ASL keywords and op-codes
   -- acpinames: display complete ACPI name space from input AML
   -- acpisrc: manipulate the ACPICA source tree and format source files
      for specific environments
   -- acpixtract: extract binary ACPI tables from acpidump output (see
      also the pmtools package)

This version of the tools is being released under GPLv2 license.

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Update Information:

The ACPI Component Architecture (ACPICA) project provides an
OS-independent reference implementation of the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Specification (ACPI).
ACPICA code contains those portions of ACPI meant to be directly
integrated into the host OS as a kernel-resident subsystem, and
a small set of tools to assist in developing and debugging ACPI
tables.

This package contains only the user-space tools needed for ACPI table development, not the kernel implementation of ACPI.  The following commands are installed:
   -- iasl: compiles ASL (ACPI Source Language) into AML (ACPI
      Machine Language), suitable for inclusion as a DSDT in
      system firmware. It also can disassemble AML, for debugging 
      purposes.
   -- acpibin: performs basic operations on binary AML files
      (e.g., comparison, data extraction)
   -- acpidump: write out the current contents of ACPI tables
   -- acpiexec: simulate AML execution in order to debug method
      definitions
   -- acpihelp: display help messages describing ASL keywords
      and op-codes
   -- acpinames: display complete ACPI name space from input AML
   -- acpisrc: manipulate the ACPICA source tree and format
      source files for specific environments
   -- acpixtract: extract binary ACPI tables from acpidump
      output (see also the pmtools package).

This version of the tools is being released under GPLv2 license.

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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #904843 - Review Request: acpica-tools - ACPICA tools for the development and debug of ACPI tables
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=904843
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update acpica-tools' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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