-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Lutomirski [mailto:luto@amacapital.net]
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2016 2:32 PM
To: Zheng, Lv
Cc: Andy Lutomirski; Rafael J. Wysocki; Linux ACPI; Moore, Robert
Subject: Re: ACPICA serialized objects?


I finally had some time to play with the ACPI debugger, and it's
fantastic.  Thanks!

One minor feature request: have you considered adding readline or libedit
support?

We actually have "readline" style support in at least acpiexec (which uses
The AML debugger):

/******************************************************************************
 *
 * FUNCTION:    OsEnterLineEditMode, OsExitLineEditMode
 *
 * PARAMETERS:  None
 *
 * RETURN:      None
 *
 * DESCRIPTION: Enter/Exit the raw character input mode for the terminal.
 *
 * Interactive line-editing support for the AML debugger. Used with the
 * common/acgetline module.
 *
 * readline() is not used because of non-portability. It is not available
 * on all systems, and if it is, often the package must be manually installed.
 *
 * Therefore, we use the POSIX tcgetattr/tcsetattr and do the minimal line
 * editing that we need in AcpiOsGetLine.
 *
 * If the POSIX tcgetattr/tcsetattr interfaces are unavailable, these
 * calls will also work:
 *     For OsEnterLineEditMode: system ("stty cbreak -echo")
 *     For OsExitLineEditMode:  system ("stty cooked echo")
 *
 *****************************************************************************/

--Andy