acpidump(1) [debian man page]
ACPIDUMP(1) General Commands Manual ACPIDUMP(1) NAME
acpidump - dump a system's ACPI tables to an ASCII file acpixtract - convert ASCII acpidump output to raw binary table turbostat - gather performance statistics SYNOPSIS
acpidump [options] acpixtract [options] [filename] turbostat [options] [command [arg]...] DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the acpidump , acpixtract and turbostat commands. turbostat reads hardware registers and gather statistics on the processor clock frequency and C-state usage. Works properly on Nehalem and newer processors and on Linux kernel 2.6.30 and later versions. 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 When given a command turbostat runs it and outputs statistics gathered while the program was running. 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 ACPIDUMP(1)
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IASL(1) General Commands Manual IASL(1) NAME
iasl - ACPI Source Language compiler/decompiler SYNOPSIS
iasl [<option>...] <input-file> ... DESCRIPTION
This manual page briefly documents the iasl command. The option list is taken from the iasl interactive help. iasl is an ASL compiler and decompiler. This command provides both the ability to translate one or more ASL source files to their corre- sponding AML binary files, and the ability to translate AML binary files back to readable ASL source. Much more detailed documentation may be found at http://www.acpica.org/documentation/. OPTIONS
Global -@ <file> Specify command file -I <dir> Specify additional include directory -T <sig>|ALL|* Create table template file for ACPI <sig> -v Display compiler version Preprocessor -D <symbol> Define sybol for preprocessor use -li Create prepocessed output file (*.i) -P Preprocess only and create preprocessor output file (*.i) -Pn Disable preprocessor General Output -p <prefix> Specify path/filename prefix for all output files -va Disable all errors and warnings (summary only) -vi Less verbose errors and warnings for use with IDEs -vo Enable optimization comments -vr Disable remarks -vs Disable signon -w{1|2|3} Set warning reporting level -we Report warnings as errors AML and Data Output Files -s{a|c} Create assembler or C source file (*.asm or *.c) -i{a|c} Create assembler or C include file (*.inc or *.h) -t{a|c|s} Create assembler, C, or ASL hex table (*.hex) AML Code Generation -oa Disable all optimizations (compatibility mode) -of Disable constant folding -oi Disable integer optimization to Zero/One/Ones -on Disable named reference string optimization -cr Disable Resource Descriptor error checking -in Ignore NoOp operators -r <revision> Override table header Revision (1-255) ASL Listing Files -l Create mixed listing file (ASL source and AML) (*.lst) -ln Create namespace file (*.nsp) -ls Create combined source file (expanded includes) (*.src) ACPI Data Tables -G Compile custom table containing generic operators -vt Create verbose templates (full disassembly) AML Disassembler -d [<file>] Disassemble AML to ASL source code file (*.dsl) -da [<file1>,<file2>] Disassemble multiple tables from single namespace -db Do not translate Buffers to Resource Templates -dc [<file>] Disassemble AML and immediately compile it (Obtain DSDT from current system if no input file) -e [<file1>,<file2>] Include ACPI table(s) for external symbol resolution -g Get ACPI tables and write to files (*.dat) -in Ignore NoOp opcodes -vt Dump binary table date in hex format within output file Help -h Additional help and compiler debug options -hc Display operators allowed in constant expressions -hf Display help for output file name generation -hr Display ACPI reserved method names -ht Display currently supported ACPI table names Debug -b{f|t} Create debug file (full or parse tree only) (*.txt) -f Ignore errors, force creation of AML output file(s) -n Parse only, no output generation -ot Display compiles times and statistics -x <level> Set debug level for trace output -z Do not insert new compiler ID for DataTables AUTHOR
iasl was written by Robert Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>. This manual page was written by Mattia Dongili <malattia@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). It was updated for the Fedora project by Al Stone <ahs3@redhat.com> (and may also be used by others). January 23, 2013 IASL(1)