About this package.
	This is tools to read table exist in the memory area
	initialized by ACPI BIOS while in BIOS initialization.
	This build two executables:

	acpitblrd
	aml
	
	acpitblrd:
		This get ACPI Table on Physical memory area by
		accessing /dev/mem device. This requires root
		privilage.This tool do not contain VM86 call, but
		this requires kernel built with
		options "VM86"
		option.Because this requires BIOS call Int 15h
		AX=E8??h to get Memory capacity.
		This recognizes
	
		Root System Description Table
		Fixed ACPI Control Table
		Differentiated System Description Table 
		Firmware ACPI Control Status.
		
		And data part of any other table is dumped in
		hexadecimal.
		
		This shows Differentiated System Discription Table,
		through AML(ACPI Machine Language) Parser.

	aml
		This is AML Parser only version of above program.
		It inputs a file and outputs  formatted data.
		The format is not compliant with ASL(ACPI Source
		Language) but something like it. This can only
		accsepts normal-file argument,because it gets file
		size then mmap it.

	I also found 2 doubtfully bug in kernel. I send problem report as
	i386/10587 and i386/10485.Both report is closed , but i386/10587 is
	not collectly commited and i386/10485 is a not correct reason.

This refers ACPI Spec by Intel/Microsoft/Toshiba .
The documents is available from 
	http://www.teleport.com/~acpi/
Copyright:
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