acpidump - dump the raw contents of ACPI tables
acpidump [-a address] [-b] [-h] [-l length] [-o file] [-s count] [-t table]
acpidump(1) User Commands acpidump(1)
NAME
acpidump - dump the raw contents of ACPI tables
SYNOPSIS
acpidump [-a address] [-b] [-h]
[-l length] [-o file] [-s count]
[-t table]
DESCRIPTION
This utility will read the ACPI tables, if any, that were presented to
the kernel from the BIOS at boot and display the information. The
tables will be printed out in hexadecimal format and can be parsed with
the acpixtract(1) and madt(1) utilities.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-a [address]
Allows the user to specify the starting address from which to dump
the tables.
-b
Dump the ACPI tables in binary mode.
-h
Display the help menu containing the options supported by the util-
ity.
-l [length]
Requires a starting address, specified with -a, and will dump the
range of physical address but makes no attempt to understand the
contents of that memory.
-o [file]
Redirect the output provided by the utility to the specified file.
-s [count]
Skip count tables of the given name
-t [table]
Dump only the table with the table signature.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+---------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+---------------------+
|Availability | diagnostic/acpidump |
+---------------+---------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+---------------------+
SEE ALSO
acpixtract(1), madt(1)
RESOURCES
http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/acpi/utilities.php
NOTES
The PRIV_FILE_DAC_READ privilege is necessary to use this utility.
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from
https://01.org/sites/default/files/page/pmtools-20071116.tar.gz.
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at https://01.org/linux-acpi/utilities.
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