acpitbl(1)

NAME

acpidump - dump a system's ACPI tables to an ASCII file
acpitbl - dump the table header or contents of a raw ACPI table
acpixtract - convert ASCII acpidump output to raw binary table

SYNOPSIS

acpidump [options]
acpitbl [filename]
acpixtract [options] [filename]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the acpidump , acpitbl and acpixtract commands. acpidump options are described below while acpitbl and acpixtract can only take an optional filename to read data from (STDIN if omitted) and output the result to STDOUT.

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 stdin 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.

acpixtract only option is:

-n instance_number

prints Nth instance of target table, default is 1.

EXAMPLES

Dump the DSDT table to the file DSDT.aml in binary format (this can be disassembled later with iasl(1):

Show the FACP table:

Dump the table header or contents of a raw ACPI table:

SEE ALSO

iasl(1),

AUTHOR

acpidump was written by Alexey Starikovskiy.

This manual page was written by Mattia Dongili <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).