| Len Brown | 0e7cc27 | 2012-09-22 23:30:22 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | .TH ACPIDUMP 8 |
| 2 | .SH NAME |
| 3 | acpidump \- Dump system's ACPI tables to an ASCII file. |
| 4 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
| 5 | .ft B |
| 6 | .B acpidump > acpidump.out |
| 7 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 8 | \fBacpidump \fP dumps the systems ACPI tables to an ASCII file |
| 9 | appropriate for attaching to a bug report. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | Subsequently, they can be processed by utilities in the ACPICA package. |
| 12 | .SS Options |
| 13 | no options worth worrying about. |
| 14 | .PP |
| 15 | .SH EXAMPLE |
| 16 | |
| 17 | .nf |
| 18 | # acpidump > acpidump.out |
| 19 | |
| 20 | $ acpixtract -a acpidump.out |
| 21 | Acpi table [DSDT] - 15974 bytes written to DSDT.dat |
| 22 | Acpi table [FACS] - 64 bytes written to FACS.dat |
| 23 | Acpi table [FACP] - 116 bytes written to FACP.dat |
| 24 | Acpi table [APIC] - 120 bytes written to APIC.dat |
| 25 | Acpi table [MCFG] - 60 bytes written to MCFG.dat |
| 26 | Acpi table [SSDT] - 444 bytes written to SSDT1.dat |
| 27 | Acpi table [SSDT] - 439 bytes written to SSDT2.dat |
| 28 | Acpi table [SSDT] - 439 bytes written to SSDT3.dat |
| 29 | Acpi table [SSDT] - 439 bytes written to SSDT4.dat |
| 30 | Acpi table [SSDT] - 439 bytes written to SSDT5.dat |
| 31 | Acpi table [RSDT] - 76 bytes written to RSDT.dat |
| 32 | Acpi table [RSDP] - 20 bytes written to RSDP.dat |
| 33 | |
| 34 | $ iasl -d *.dat |
| 35 | ... |
| 36 | .fi |
| 37 | creates *.dsl, a human readable form which can be edited |
| 38 | and compiled using iasl. |
| 39 | |
| 40 | |
| 41 | .SH NOTES |
| 42 | |
| 43 | .B "acpidump " |
| 44 | must be run as root. |
| 45 | |
| 46 | .SH REFERENCES |
| 47 | ACPICA: https://acpica.org/ |
| 48 | |
| 49 | .SH FILES |
| 50 | .ta |
| 51 | .nf |
| 52 | /dev/mem |
| 53 | /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic/* |
| 54 | .fi |
| 55 | |
| 56 | .PP |
| 57 | .SH AUTHOR |
| 58 | .nf |
| 59 | Written by Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> |