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IASL(1) General Commands Manual IASL(1)

NAME

iasl - ACPI Source Language compiler/decompiler

SYNOPSIS

iasl [<option>...] <input-file> ...

DESCRIPTION

This manual page briefly documents the iasl command. The option list is taken from the iasl interactive help.

iasl is an ASL compiler and decompiler. This command provides both the ability to translate one or more ASL source files to their corresponding AML binary files, and the ability to translate AML binary files back to readable ASL source.

Much more detailed documentation may be found at http://www.acpica.org/documentation/.

OPTIONS

Global

-@ <file>
Specify command file
Specify additional include directory
Create table template file for ACPI <sig>
Display compiler version

Preprocessor

Define sybol for preprocessor use
Create prepocessed output file (*.i)
Preprocess only and create preprocessor output file (*.i)
Disable preprocessor

General Output

Specify path/filename prefix for all output files
Disable all errors and warnings (summary only)
Less verbose errors and warnings for use with IDEs
Enable optimization comments
Disable remarks
Disable signon
Set warning reporting level
Report warnings as errors

AML and Data Output Files

Create assembler or C source file (*.asm or *.c)
Create assembler or C include file (*.inc or *.h)
Create assembler, C, or ASL hex table (*.hex)

AML Code Generation

Disable all optimizations (compatibility mode)
Disable constant folding
Disable integer optimization to Zero/One/Ones
Disable named reference string optimization
Disable Resource Descriptor error checking
Ignore NoOp operators
Override table header Revision (1-255)

ASL Listing Files

Create mixed listing file (ASL source and AML) (*.lst)
Create namespace file (*.nsp)
Create combined source file (expanded includes) (*.src)

ACPI Data Tables

Compile custom table containing generic operators
Create verbose templates (full disassembly)

AML Disassembler

Disassemble AML to ASL source code file (*.dsl)
Disassemble multiple tables from single namespace
Do not translate Buffers to Resource Templates
Disassemble AML and immediately compile it
(Obtain DSDT from current system if no input file)
Include ACPI table(s) for external symbol resolution
Get ACPI tables and write to files (*.dat)
Ignore NoOp opcodes
Dump binary table date in hex format within output file

Help

Additional help and compiler debug options
Display operators allowed in constant expressions
Display help for output file name generation
Display ACPI reserved method names
Display currently supported ACPI table names

Debug

Create debug file (full or parse tree only) (*.txt)
Ignore errors, force creation of AML output file(s)
Parse only, no output generation
Display compiles times and statistics
Set debug level for trace output
Do not insert new compiler ID for DataTables

AUTHOR

iasl was written by Robert Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>.

This manual page was written by Mattia Dongili <malattia@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). It was updated for the Fedora project by Al Stone <ahs3@redhat.com> (and may also be used by others).

January 23, 2013