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| 4 | .TH ACPIDUMP 1 "July 24, 2013" | |
| 5 | .\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage. | |
| 6 | .\" | |
| 7 | .\" Some roff macros, for reference: | |
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| 16 | .\" for manpage-specific macros, see man(7) | |
| 17 | .SH NAME | |
| 18 | acpidump \- ACPI table dump utility | |
| 19 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 20 | .B acpidump | |
| 21 | .RI [ <option> ... ] | |
| 22 | ||
| 23 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 24 | This manual page briefly documents the | |
| 25 | .B acpidump | |
| 26 | command. The option list is taken from the interactive help. | |
| 27 | .PP | |
| 28 | The | |
| 29 | .B acpidump | |
| 30 | command extracts the ACPI tables currently in use from the running | |
| 31 | kernel in a form usable for later processing by the | |
| 32 | .B acpixtract | |
| 33 | command. | |
| 34 | .PP | |
| 35 | Invocation of | |
| 36 | .B acpidump | |
| 37 | without parameters will dump all available ACPI tables. Multiple mixed | |
| 38 | instances of the | |
| 39 | .B \-a | |
| 40 | , | |
| 41 | .B \-f | |
| 42 | , and | |
| 43 | .B \-n | |
| 44 | parameters can be used. | |
| 45 | ||
| 46 | .SH OPTIONS | |
| 47 | .PP | |
| 48 | .TP | |
| 49 | .B \-b | |
| 50 | Dump tables in binary format (versus the default human-readable form) | |
| 51 | ||
| 52 | .PP | |
| 53 | .TP | |
| 54 | .B \-h | \-? | |
| 55 | Display this help message | |
| 56 | ||
| 57 | .PP | |
| 58 | .TP | |
| 59 | .B \-o <file> | |
| 60 | Redirect output to a file. This file can be used later by | |
| 61 | .B acpixtract | |
| 62 | to examine the contents of the ACPI tables. | |
| 63 | ||
| 64 | .PP | |
| 65 | .TP | |
| 66 | .B \-s | |
| 67 | Print table summaries only. | |
| 68 | ||
| 69 | .PP | |
| 70 | .TP | |
| 71 | .B \-v | |
| 72 | Print the version of this utility. | |
| 73 | ||
| 74 | .PP | |
| 75 | .TP | |
| 76 | .B \-z | |
| 77 | Verbose mode. | |
| 78 | ||
| 79 | .PP | |
| 80 | .TP | |
| 81 | .B \-a <address> | |
| 82 | Get a table from a physical address (must be superuser and you must be | |
| 83 | careful which address you use -- dmesg will typically report the addresses | |
| 84 | for the various tables). | |
| 85 | ||
| 86 | .PP | |
| 87 | .TP | |
| 88 | .B \-f <binary-file> | |
| 89 | Get a table from a binary file (see the | |
| 90 | .B \-b | |
| 91 | option). | |
| 92 | ||
| 93 | .PP | |
| 94 | .TP | |
| 95 | .B \-n <signature> | |
| 96 | Get a table via it's name or signature (e.g., MADT or SSDT). | |
| 97 | ||
| 98 | .SH SEE ALSO | |
| 99 | .B acpixtract(1) | |
| 100 | ||
| 101 | .SH AUTHOR | |
| 102 | acpidump was written by Robert Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> and | |
| 103 | Chao Guan <chao.guan@intel.com>. | |
| 104 | .PP | |
| 105 | This manual page was written by Al Stone <ahs3@redhat.com> for the | |
| 106 | Fedora project (but may be used by others). |