acpidump(1)
NAME
acpidump - dump a system's ACPI tables to an ASCII file
acpixtract - convert ASCII acpidump output to raw binary table
madt - parser for APIC table
SYNOPSIS
acpidump [options] acpixtract [options] [filename] madt
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the acpidump , acpixtract and madt
commands. acpidump and acpixtract options are described below while
madt can only read an APIC table from standard input.
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
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>
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
madt < APIC.dat
SEE ALSO
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).