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)