ACPIDUMP
ACPIDUMP
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DESCRIPTION
EXAMPLE
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NAME
acpidump − Dump system’s ACPI tables to an ASCII file.
SYNOPSIS
acpidump > acpidump.out
DESCRIPTION
acpidump dumps the systems ACPI tables to an ASCII file appropriate for attaching to a bug report.
Subsequently, they can be processed by utilities in the ACPICA package.
Options
no options worth worrying about.
EXAMPLE
# acpidump > acpidump.out
$ acpixtract -a
acpidump.out
Acpi table [DSDT] - 15974 bytes written to DSDT.dat
Acpi table [FACS] - 64 bytes written to FACS.dat
Acpi table [FACP] - 116 bytes written to FACP.dat
Acpi table [APIC] - 120 bytes written to APIC.dat
Acpi table [MCFG] - 60 bytes written to MCFG.dat
Acpi table [SSDT] - 444 bytes written to SSDT1.dat
Acpi table [SSDT] - 439 bytes written to SSDT2.dat
Acpi table [SSDT] - 439 bytes written to SSDT3.dat
Acpi table [SSDT] - 439 bytes written to SSDT4.dat
Acpi table [SSDT] - 439 bytes written to SSDT5.dat
Acpi table [RSDT] - 76 bytes written to RSDT.dat
Acpi table [RSDP] - 20 bytes written to RSDP.dat
$ iasl -d *.dat
creates *.dsl, a human readable form which can be edited and
compiled using iasl.
NOTES
acpidump must be run as root.
REFERENCES
ACPICA: https://acpica.org/
FILES
/dev/mem
/sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic/*
AUTHOR
Written by Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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