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.SH NAME
acpiexec \- ACPI AML execution and debug utility
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B acpiexec
.RI [ <option> ... ]
.RI <aml-file>
.B ...

.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page briefly documents the
.B acpiexec
command. The option list is taken from the acpiexec interactive help.
.PP
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.B acpiexec
provides a simulated execution environment for AML code so that it
can be more easily tested and debugged.
.PP
Much more detailed documentation may be found at
http://www.acpica.org/documentation/.

.SH OPTIONS

.PP
.TP
.B \-?
Display the help message
.TP
.B \-b "command-line"
Batch mode command line execution (cmd1;cmd2;...)
.TP
.B \-M [<method>]
Batch mode method execution (Default: MAIN)
.TP
.B \-da
Disable method abort on error
.TP
.B \-di
Disable execution of _STA/_INI methods during init
.TP
.B \-do
Disable Operation Region address simulation
.TP
.B \-dr
Disable repair of method return values
.TP
.B \-dt
Disable allocation tracking (performance)
.TP
.B \-ef
Enable display of final memory statistics
.TP
.B \-ei
Enable additional tests for ACPICA interfaces
.TP
.B \-em
Enable interpreter Serialized mode
.TP
.B \-es
Enable interpreter Slack mode
.TP
.B \-et
Enable debug semaphore timeour
.TP
.B \-f <value>
Operation Region initialization fill value
.TP
.B \-r
Use hardware-reduced FADT V5
.TP
.B \-vi
Verbose initialization output
.TP
.B \-vr
Verbose region handler output
.TP
.B \-x <debug-level>
Debug output level

.SH AUTHOR
acpiexec was written by Robert Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>.
.PP
This manual page was written by Al Stone <ahs3@redhat.com> for the
Fedora project (but may be used by others).