NAME

acpidump — dump ACPI tables

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The acpidump utility is used to dump the system's Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) tables that are provided by system firmware. The dumped tables can be used by other utilities, such as acpixtract(8) or iasl.

OPTIONS

The following options are supported:

-a address

Get the table at the given physical address.

-b

Dump all tables to binary files.

-c on|off

Enable dumping customized tables. The default is off.

-f file

Read the table from the given binary file.

-h

Display the usage message and exit.

-n signature

Get the table with the specified signature.

-o file

Write output to the given file.

-r address

Dump tables from the RSDP at the given address.

-s

Only print table summaries.

-v

Print the version.

-x

Do not use the XSDT.

-z

Verbose.

EXAMPLES

Example 1 Dump all ACPI Tables

The following example dumps all of the ACPI tables from the system. This can then be used with acpixtract(8) and the iasl utility to decode the ACPI tables from the system. In this example, all of the tables are written to the file acpi.out.

# acpidump -o acpi.dat

SEE ALSO

acpixtract(8)