acpixtract

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Version: October 19, 2005 (debian - 07/07/09)

Section: 1 (Commandes utilisateur)

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

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).