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.TH ACPIDUMP 1 "July 24, 2013"
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.SH NAME
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acpidump \- ACPI table dump utility
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B acpidump
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.RI [ <option> ... ]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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This manual page briefly documents the
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.B acpidump
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command.  The option list is taken from the interactive help.
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The
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.B acpidump
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command extracts the ACPI tables currently in use from the running
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kernel in a form usable for later processing by the
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.B acpixtract
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command.
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Invocation of
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.B acpidump
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without parameters will dump all available ACPI tables.  Multiple mixed
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instances of the
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.B \-a
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,
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.B \-f
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, and
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.B \-n
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parameters can be used.
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.SH OPTIONS
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.PP
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.TP
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.B \-b
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Dump tables in binary format (versus the default human-readable form)
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.PP
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.TP
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.B \-h | \-?
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Display this help message
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.TP
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.B \-o <file>
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Redirect output to a file.  This file can be used later by
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.B acpixtract
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to examine the contents of the ACPI tables.
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.B \-s
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Print table summaries only.
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.TP
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.B \-v
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Print the version of this utility.
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.TP
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.B \-z
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Verbose mode.
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.TP
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.B \-a <address>
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Get a table from a physical address (must be superuser and you must be
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careful which address you use -- dmesg will typically report the addresses
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for the various tables).
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.TP
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.B \-f <binary-file>
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Get a table from a binary file (see the
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.B \-b
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option).
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.TP
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.B \-n <signature>
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Get a table via it's name or signature (e.g., MADT or SSDT).
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.B acpixtract(1)
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.SH AUTHOR
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acpidump was written by Robert Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> and
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Chao Guan <chao.guan@intel.com>.
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This manual page was written by Al Stone <ahs3@redhat.com> for the
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Fedora project (but may be used by others).