acpidump(1) [centos 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)

IASL(8) 						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						   IASL(8)

NAME

     iasl -- Intel ACPI compiler/decompiler

SYNOPSIS

     iasl [-2cefghl] [-b type] [-d file] [-dc file] [-hc] [-hr] [-i type] [-ln] [-ls] [-oa] [-of] [-oi] [-on] [-ot] [-p prefix] [-s type]
	  [-t type] [-vi] [-vo] [-vr] [-vs] [-x level] [-w level] input-file

DESCRIPTION

     The iasl utility is a compiler/decompiler for ACPI Source Language (ASL) and ACPI Machine Language (AML).	Major features of iasl include:

	   o   Full support for the ACPI 3.0b Specification including ASL grammar elements and operators.

	   o   Extensive compiler syntax and semantic error checking, especially in the area of control methods.  This reduces the number of
	       errors that are not discovered until the AML code is actually interpreted (i.e., the compile-time error checking reduces the number
	       of run-time errors).

	   o   Multiple types of output files, including formatted listing files with intermixed source, several types of AML files, and error
	       messages.

OPTIONS

     -2      Emit ACPI 2.0 compatible ASL code.

     -b p|t|b
	     Create compiler debug/trace file (*.txt).	Types: Parse/Tree/Both.

     -c      Parse only, no output generation.

     -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.

     -f      Ignore errors, force creation of AML output file(s).

     -g      Get ACPI tables and write to files (*.dat).

     -h      Additional help and compiler debug options.

     -hc     Display operators allowed in constant expressions.

     -hr     Display ACPI reserved method names.

     -i a|c  Create assembler or C include file (*.inc or *.h).

     -l      Create mixed listing file (ASL source and AML) (*.lst).

     -ln     Create namespace file (*.nsp).

     -ls     Create combined source file (expanded includes) (*.src).

     -oa     Disable all optimizations (compatibility mode).

     -of     Disable constant folding.

     -oi     Disable integer optimization to Zero/One/Ones.

     -on     Disable named reference string optimization.

     -ot     Display compile times.

     -p prefix
	     Specify filename prefix for all output files (including .aml).

     -s a|c  Create AML in assembler or C source file (*.asm or *.c).

     -t a|c  Create AML in assembler or C hex table (*.hex).

     -vi     Less verbose errors and warnings for use with IDEs.

     -vo     Enable optimization comments.

     -vr     Disable remarks.

     -vs     Disable signon.

     -x level
	     Set debug level for trace output.

     -w level
	     Set warning level.

SEE ALSO

     acpi(4), acpidump(8)

HISTORY

     The iasl utility is provided with Intel ACPI-CA.  It first appeared in FreeBSD 5.2.

AUTHORS

     The iasl utility was written by Intel.  This manual page was written by Nate Lawson.

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