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1.TH ACPIDUMP 8
2.SH NAME
3acpidump \- 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
12dumps the systems ACPI tables to an ASCII file appropriate for
13attaching to a bug report.
14
15Subsequently, they can be processed by utilities in the ACPICA package.
16
17.SH OPTIONS
18acpidump options are as follow:
19.TP
20.B Options
21.TP
22.B \-b
23Dump tables to binary files
24.TP
25.B \-h \-?
26This help message
27.TP
28.B \-o <File>
29Redirect output to file
30.TP
31.B \-r <Address>
32Dump tables from specified RSDP
33.TP
34.B \-s
35Print table summaries only
36.TP
37.B \-v
38Display version information
39.TP
40.B \-z
41Verbose mode
42.TP
43.B Table Options
44.TP
45.B \-a <Address>
46Get table via a physical address
47.TP
48.B \-c <on|off>
49Turning on/off customized table dumping
50.TP
51.B \-f <BinaryFile>
52Get table via a binary file
53.TP
54.B \-n <Signature>
55Get table via a name/signature
56.TP
57.B \-x
58Do not use but dump XSDT
59.TP
60.B \-x \-x
61Do not use or dump XSDT
62.TP
63.fi
64Invocation without parameters dumps all available tables.
65.TP
66Multiple 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
90creates *.dsl, a human readable form which can be edited
91and compiled using iasl.
92
93
94.SH NOTES
95
96.B "acpidump "
97must be run as root.
98
99.SH REFERENCES
100ACPICA: 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
113Original by:
114 Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
115.TP
116Written by:
117 Chao Guan <chao.guan@intel.com>
118.TP
119Updated 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
127COPYRIGHT (c) 2013, Intel Corporation.