IASL(1)

NAME

iasl - ACPI Source Language compiler/decompiler

iasl [options] [input file]

This manual page documents briefly the iasl command. The option list is taken from the iasl interactive help.

iasl is an ASL compiler and decompiler.

General Output: -p <prefix>
Specify filename prefix for all output files (including .aml); -vi Less verbose errors and warnings for use with IDEs; -vo Enable optimization comments; -vr Disable remarks; -vs Disable signon
AML Output Files: -s<a|c>
Create AML in assembler or C source file (*.asm or *.c); -i<a|c>
Create assembler or C include file (*.inc or *.h); -t<a|c>
Create AML in assembler or C 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; -r<Revision>
Override table header Revision (1-255)
Listings: -l Create mixed listing file (ASL source and AML) (*.lst); -ln Create namespace file (*.nsp); -ls Create combined source file (expanded includes) (*.src)
AML Disassembler: -d [file]
Disassemble AML to ASL source code file (*.dsl); -dc [file]
Disassemble AML and immediately compile it
(Obtain DSDT from current system if no input file); -e Generate External() statements for unresolved symbols; -g Get ACPI tables and write to files (*.dat)
Miscellaneous: -a Verify source file is entirely ASCII text (0x00-0x7F)
Help: -h Additional help and compiler debug options; -hc Display operators allowed in constant expressions; -hr Display ACPI reserved method names

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).