| .TH ACPIDUMP 8 |
| .SH NAME |
| acpidump \- Dump system's ACPI tables to an ASCII file. |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .ft B |
| .B acpidump > acpidump.out |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| \fBacpidump \fP dumps the systems ACPI tables to an ASCII file |
| appropriate for attaching to a bug report. |
| |
| Subsequently, they can be processed by utilities in the ACPICA package. |
| .SS Options |
| no options worth worrying about. |
| .PP |
| .SH EXAMPLE |
| |
| .nf |
| # acpidump > acpidump.out |
| |
| $ acpixtract -a acpidump.out |
| Acpi table [DSDT] - 15974 bytes written to DSDT.dat |
| Acpi table [FACS] - 64 bytes written to FACS.dat |
| Acpi table [FACP] - 116 bytes written to FACP.dat |
| Acpi table [APIC] - 120 bytes written to APIC.dat |
| Acpi table [MCFG] - 60 bytes written to MCFG.dat |
| Acpi table [SSDT] - 444 bytes written to SSDT1.dat |
| Acpi table [SSDT] - 439 bytes written to SSDT2.dat |
| Acpi table [SSDT] - 439 bytes written to SSDT3.dat |
| Acpi table [SSDT] - 439 bytes written to SSDT4.dat |
| Acpi table [SSDT] - 439 bytes written to SSDT5.dat |
| Acpi table [RSDT] - 76 bytes written to RSDT.dat |
| Acpi table [RSDP] - 20 bytes written to RSDP.dat |
| |
| $ iasl -d *.dat |
| ... |
| .fi |
| creates *.dsl, a human readable form which can be edited |
| and compiled using iasl. |
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| |
| .SH NOTES |
| |
| .B "acpidump " |
| must be run as root. |
| |
| .SH REFERENCES |
| ACPICA: https://acpica.org/ |
| |
| .SH FILES |
| .ta |
| .nf |
| /dev/mem |
| /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic/* |
| .fi |
| |
| .PP |
| .SH AUTHOR |
| .nf |
| Written by Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> |
