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18 acpidump \- ACPI table dump utility
24 This manual page briefly documents the
26 command. The option list is taken from the interactive help.
30 command extracts the ACPI tables currently in use from the running
31 kernel in a form usable for later processing by the
37 without parameters will dump all available ACPI tables. Multiple mixed
44 parameters can be used.
50 Dump tables in binary format (versus the default human-readable form)
55 Display this help message
60 Redirect output to a file. This file can be used later by
62 to examine the contents of the ACPI tables.
67 Print table summaries only.
72 Print the version of this utility.
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).
89 Get a table from a binary file (see the
96 Get a table via it's name or signature (e.g., MADT or SSDT).
102 acpidump was written by Robert Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> and
103 Chao Guan <chao.guan@intel.com>.
105 This manual page was written by Al Stone <ahs3@redhat.com> for the
106 Fedora project (but may be used by others).