acpitbl1
Dump a system's acpi tables to an ascii file acpitbl - dump the table header or contents of a raw acpi table acpixtract - convert ascii acpidump output to raw binary table
Part of acpidump(1).
Usage
acpidump [options]
acpitbl [filename]
acpixtract [options]
[filename]
Overview
This manual page documents briefly the acpidump , acpitbl and acpixtract commands. acpidump options are described below while acpitbl and acpixtract can only take an optional filename to read data from (STDIN if omitted) and output the result to STDOUT.
Options
acpidump options are as follow:
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-a, --addr 0x1234 -
look for tables at this phisical address.
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-t, --table DSDT -
only dump table with DSDT signature.
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-o, --output filename -
redirect output from stdin to filename.
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-b, --binary -
dump data in binary form rather than in hex-dump format.
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-l, --lenght 0x456 -
works only with --addr, dump phisical memory region without trying to understand it's contents.
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-s, --skip 2 -
skip 2 tables of the given name and output only 3rd one.
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-h, --help -
outputs an help message.
- acpixtract only option is:
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-n instance_number -
prints Nth instance of target table, default is 1.
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 | acpixtract | acpitbl
Dump the table header or contents of a raw ACPI table:
acpidump -t FACP -b | acpitbl
cat email | acpixtract FACP | acpitbl