1 .TH ACPIDUMP 8 2 .SH NAME 3 acpidump \- dump a system's ACPI tables to an ASCII file 4 5 .SH SYNOPSIS 6 .B acpidump 7 .RI [ options ] 8 .br 9 10 .SH DESCRIPTION 11 .B acpidump 12 dumps the systems ACPI tables to an ASCII file appropriate for 13 attaching to a bug report. 14 15 Subsequently, they can be processed by utilities in the ACPICA package. 16 17 .SH OPTIONS 18 acpidump options are as follow: 19 .TP 20 .B Options 21 .TP 22 .B \-b 23 Dump tables to binary files 24 .TP 25 .B \-h \-? 26 This help message 27 .TP 28 .B \-o <File> 29 Redirect output to file 30 .TP 31 .B \-r <Address> 32 Dump tables from specified RSDP 33 .TP 34 .B \-s 35 Print table summaries only 36 .TP 37 .B \-v 38 Display version information 39 .TP 40 .B \-z 41 Verbose mode 42 .TP 43 .B Table Options 44 .TP 45 .B \-a <Address> 46 Get table via a physical address 47 .TP 48 .B \-c <on|off> 49 Turning on/off customized table dumping 50 .TP 51 .B \-f <BinaryFile> 52 Get table via a binary file 53 .TP 54 .B \-n <Signature> 55 Get table via a name/signature 56 .TP 57 .B \-x 58 Do not use but dump XSDT 59 .TP 60 .B \-x \-x 61 Do not use or dump XSDT 62 .TP 63 .fi 64 Invocation without parameters dumps all available tables. 65 .TP 66 Multiple mixed instances of -a, -f, and -n are supported. 67 68 .SH EXAMPLES 69 70 .nf 71 # acpidump > acpidump.out 72 73 $ acpixtract -a acpidump.out 74 Acpi table [DSDT] - 15974 bytes written to DSDT.dat 75 Acpi table [FACS] - 64 bytes written to FACS.dat 76 Acpi table [FACP] - 116 bytes written to FACP.dat 77 Acpi table [APIC] - 120 bytes written to APIC.dat 78 Acpi table [MCFG] - 60 bytes written to MCFG.dat 79 Acpi table [SSDT] - 444 bytes written to SSDT1.dat 80 Acpi table [SSDT] - 439 bytes written to SSDT2.dat 81 Acpi table [SSDT] - 439 bytes written to SSDT3.dat 82 Acpi table [SSDT] - 439 bytes written to SSDT4.dat 83 Acpi table [SSDT] - 439 bytes written to SSDT5.dat 84 Acpi table [RSDT] - 76 bytes written to RSDT.dat 85 Acpi table [RSDP] - 20 bytes written to RSDP.dat 86 87 $ iasl -d *.dat 88 ... 89 .fi 90 creates *.dsl, a human readable form which can be edited 91 and compiled using iasl. 92 93 94 .SH NOTES 95 96 .B "acpidump " 97 must be run as root. 98 99 .SH REFERENCES 100 ACPICA: https://acpica.org/ 101 102 .SH FILES 103 .ta 104 .nf 105 /dev/mem 106 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/* 107 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic/* 108 /sys/firmware/efi/systab 109 .fi 110 111 .SH AUTHOR 112 .TP 113 Original by: 114 Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> 115 .TP 116 Written by: 117 Chao Guan <chao.guan@intel.com> 118 .TP 119 Updated by: 120 Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> 121 Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com> 122 123 .SH SEE ALSO 124 \&\fIacpixtract\fR\|(8), \fIiasl\fR\|(8). 125 126 .SH COPYRIGHT 127 COPYRIGHT (c) 2013, Intel Corporation.
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