acpidump.8

  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.