| .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. | |
| .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> |