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Decoding tools for Mac OS X

I decided to share my tools I use for generating the Mac information (from the .ioreg files) This package contains 3 tools for decoding data. -> iasl You know this one, allows decoding (and coding) of AML data. iasl -d .aml iasl -tc .dsl…

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@andyvand Published 2011-12-03
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OSx86 Core & 10.X
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4,383 historical reads · 1 curated field notes (from 3 dispatches) · 2011-12-03 – 2011-12-05
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@andyvand (2)@hans88

I decided to share my tools I use for generating the Mac information (from the .ioreg files)
This package contains 3 tools for decoding data.

-> iasl
You know this one, allows decoding (and coding) of AML data.
iasl -d <something>.aml
iasl -tc <something>.dsl

-> dmidecode
This one allows decoding of SMBIOS tables.
dmidecode --from-smbios <something>.bin

-> edid-decode
This one allows decoding of EDID (Extended Display Identification Data) binaries.
edid-decode <something>.bin

Download:
rapid share.com/files/1218091287/decoding_tools.zip

Author Updates & Technical Revisions

Follow-up dispatches by @andyvand

Author Update #1 @andyvand 2011-12-05 ↳ Re: @hans88
@hans88And by the way Andy, is something going on concerning AMD kernel for LION? Looks like nawcom is dead, lol .

Been trying but no success yet... :-|

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1 technical responses curated from 3 original dispatches

Field Note #1 @hans88 2011-12-05

And by the way Andy, is something going on concerning AMD kernel for LION? Looks like nawcom is dead, lol .

Sources & Contributor Provenance (2 credited usernames · Thread #7526)
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@andyvandPrimary Author22011-12-03 → 2011-12-05
@hans88Contributor12011-12-05