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ACPIDUMP(1) | General Commands Manual | ACPIDUMP(1) |
NAME¶
acpidump - dump a system's ACPI tables to an ASCII fileSYNOPSIS¶
acpidump [options]DESCRIPTION¶
This manual page documents briefly the acpidump , acpixtract and turbostat commands.OPTIONS¶
acpidump options are as follow:- -a, --addr 0x1234
- look for tables at this phisical address
- -t, --table DSDT
- only dump table with DSDT signature
- -o, --output filename
- redirect output from stdout to filename
- -b, --binary
- dump data in binary form rather than in hex-dump format
- -l, --lenght 0x456
- works only with --addr, dump phisical memory region without trying to understand it's contents
- -s, --skip 2
- skip 2 tables of the given name and output only 3rd one
- -h, --help
- outputs an help message
OPTIONS¶
acpixtract options are as follow:- -a
- extract all tables, not just DSDT/SSDT
- -l
- list table summaries, do not extract
- -s<Signature>
- Extract all tables named <Signature>
OPTIONS¶
turbostat options are as follow:- -v
- makes turbostat more verbose
- -i <sec>
- polling interval, default is 5
EXAMPLES¶
Dump the DSDT table to the file DSDT.aml in binary format (this can be disassembled later with iasl(1)):acpidump -b -t DSDT -o DSDT.aml
Show the FACP table:
acpidump -t FACP > FACP.dat
acpixtract -a FACP.dat
iasl -d FACP.dat
Dump and extract all ACPI tables:
acpidump -o DSDT.dat
acpixtract -a
Parse APIC tables:
acpidump -o DSDT.dat
acpixtract -sAPIC DSDT.dat
SEE ALSO¶
iasl(1),AUTHOR¶
acpidump was written by Alexey Starikovskiy and Len Brown. This manual page was written by Mattia Dongili <malattia@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).October 19, 2005 |