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  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. Subsequently, they can be processed by utilities in the ACPICA package.
  11. .SS Options
  12. no options worth worrying about.
  13. .PP
  14. .SH EXAMPLE
  15. .nf
  16. # acpidump > acpidump.out
  17. $ acpixtract -a acpidump.out
  18. Acpi table [DSDT] - 15974 bytes written to DSDT.dat
  19. Acpi table [FACS] - 64 bytes written to FACS.dat
  20. Acpi table [FACP] - 116 bytes written to FACP.dat
  21. Acpi table [APIC] - 120 bytes written to APIC.dat
  22. Acpi table [MCFG] - 60 bytes written to MCFG.dat
  23. Acpi table [SSDT] - 444 bytes written to SSDT1.dat
  24. Acpi table [SSDT] - 439 bytes written to SSDT2.dat
  25. Acpi table [SSDT] - 439 bytes written to SSDT3.dat
  26. Acpi table [SSDT] - 439 bytes written to SSDT4.dat
  27. Acpi table [SSDT] - 439 bytes written to SSDT5.dat
  28. Acpi table [RSDT] - 76 bytes written to RSDT.dat
  29. Acpi table [RSDP] - 20 bytes written to RSDP.dat
  30. $ iasl -d *.dat
  31. ...
  32. .fi
  33. creates *.dsl, a human readable form which can be edited
  34. and compiled using iasl.
  35. .SH NOTES
  36. .B "acpidump "
  37. must be run as root.
  38. .SH REFERENCES
  39. ACPICA: https://acpica.org/
  40. .SH FILES
  41. .ta
  42. .nf
  43. /dev/mem
  44. /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic/*
  45. .fi
  46. .PP
  47. .SH AUTHOR
  48. .nf
  49. Written by Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>