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| author | Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com> | 2019-04-25 01:53:00 +0800 |
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| committer | Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> | 2019-04-25 23:07:20 +0200 |
| commit | 472e89b4e1a87cd7f9b5ae99759a635711cf00fb (patch) | |
| tree | e908b120cf6dcb3e6af48d08d828af56d6983832 /Documentation/acpi | |
| parent | 3c03a1bde4dcedef8fb287e348de959d81d04ca6 (diff) | |
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Documentation: ACPI: move aml-debugger.txt to firmware-guide/acpi and convert to reST
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format
and adds it to Sphinx TOC tree.
No essential content change.
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/aml-debugger.txt b/Documentation/acpi/aml-debugger.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 75ebeb64ab29..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/acpi/aml-debugger.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,66 +0,0 @@ -The AML Debugger - -Copyright (C) 2016, Intel Corporation -Author: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com> - - -This document describes the usage of the AML debugger embedded in the Linux -kernel. - -1. Build the debugger - - The following kernel configuration items are required to enable the AML - debugger interface from the Linux kernel: - - CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUGGER=y - CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUGGER_USER=m - - The userspace utilities can be built from the kernel source tree using - the following commands: - - $ cd tools - $ make acpi - - The resultant userspace tool binary is then located at: - - tools/power/acpi/acpidbg - - It can be installed to system directories by running "make install" (as a - sufficiently privileged user). - -2. Start the userspace debugger interface - - After booting the kernel with the debugger built-in, the debugger can be - started by using the following commands: - - # mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug - # modprobe acpi_dbg - # tools/power/acpi/acpidbg - - That spawns the interactive AML debugger environment where you can execute - debugger commands. - - The commands are documented in the "ACPICA Overview and Programmer Reference" - that can be downloaded from - - https://acpica.org/documentation - - The detailed debugger commands reference is located in Chapter 12 "ACPICA - Debugger Reference". The "help" command can be used for a quick reference. - -3. Stop the userspace debugger interface - - The interactive debugger interface can be closed by pressing Ctrl+C or using - the "quit" or "exit" commands. When finished, unload the module with: - - # rmmod acpi_dbg - - The module unloading may fail if there is an acpidbg instance running. - -4. Run the debugger in a script - - It may be useful to run the AML debugger in a test script. "acpidbg" supports - this in a special "batch" mode. For example, the following command outputs - the entire ACPI namespace: - - # acpidbg -b "namespace" |