ACPIDUMP(8) Maintenance Commands and Procedures ACPIDUMP(8)

NAME

acpidump - dump ACPI tables

SYNOPSIS

acpidump [-bhsvxz] [-a address] [-c on|off] [-f file] [-n signature]
[-o file] [-r address]

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)

illumos May 12, 2017 illumos