acpidump.8 (2528B)
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.