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4 .TH ACPIHELP 1 "January 23, 2013"
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18 acpihelp \- ACPI help utility
22 .RI [<name-prefix>|<hex-value>]
25 This manual page briefly documents the
27 command. The option list is taken from the acpihelp interactive help.
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33 provides descriptive text for AML and ASL keywords, methods, and opcodes.
35 Much more detailed documentation may be found at
36 http://www.acpica.org/documentation/.
38 If neither a <name-prefix> or a <hex-value> is provided,
40 will do the logical equivalent of a "display all."
42 A default search (that is, a search with no options) and a <name-prefix>
43 can mean two different things: (1) if <name-prefix> does not start with
44 an underscore, find ASL operator names, or (2) if <name-prefix> does start
45 with an underscore, find ASL predefined method names.
50 .SS ACPI Names and Symbols
52 .B \-k [<name-prefix>]
53 Find/Display ASL non-operator keyword(s)
55 .B \-m [<name-prefix>]
56 Find/Display AML opcode name(s)
58 .B \-p [<name-prefix>]
59 Find/Display ASL predefined method name(s)
61 .B \-s [<name-prefix>]
62 Find/Display ASL operator name(s)
68 Decode ACPICA exception code
71 Display known ACPI Device IDs (_HID)
77 acpihelp was written by Robert Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>.
79 This manual page was written by Al Stone <ahs3@redhat.com> for the
80 Fedora project (but may be used by others).