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.SH NAME

acpidump \- ACPI table dump utility

.SH SYNOPSIS

.B acpidump

.RI [ <option> ... ]

.SH DESCRIPTION

This manual page briefly documents the

.B acpidump

command.  The option list is taken from the interactive help.

.PP

The

.B acpidump

command extracts the ACPI tables currently in use from the running

kernel in a form usable for later processing by the

.B acpixtract

command.

.PP

Invocation of

.B acpidump

without parameters will dump all available ACPI tables.  Multiple mixed

instances of the

.B \-a

,

.B \-f

, and

.B \-n

parameters can be used.

.SH OPTIONS

.PP

.TP

.B \-b

Dump tables in binary format (versus the default human-readable form).

.PP

.TP

.B \-h | \-?

Display this help message.

.PP

.TP

.B \-o <file>

Redirect output to a file.  This file can be used later by

.B acpixtract

to examine the contents of the ACPI tables.

.PP

.TP

.B \-r <address>

Dump tables from specified RSDP.

.PP

.TP

.B \-s

Print table summaries only.

.PP

.TP

.B \-v

Print the version of this utility.

.PP

.TP

.B \-z

Verbose mode.

.SH TABLE OPTIONS

.PP

.TP

.B \-a <address>

Get a table from a physical address (must be superuser and you must be

careful which address you use -- dmesg will typically report the addresses

for the various tables).

.PP

.TP

.B \-c <on|off>

Turn on/off customized table dumping. If turned on, tables are dumped

from /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. If turned off, tables are dumped

from /dev/mem. The default is on.

.PP

.TP

.B \-f <binary-file>

Get a table from a binary file (see the

.B \-b

option).

.PP

.TP

.B \-n <signature>

Get a table via it's name or signature (e.g., MADT or SSDT).

.PP

.TP

.B \-x

Do not use but dump XSDT.

.PP

.TP

.B \-x \-x

Do not use or dump XSDT.

.SH SEE ALSO

.B acpixtract(1)

.SH AUTHOR

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

Chao Guan <chao.guan@intel.com>.

.PP

This manual page was written by Al Stone <ahs3@redhat.com> for the

Fedora project (but may be used by others).