.TH ACPIDUMP 8
.SH NAME
acpidump \- Dump system's ACPI tables to an ASCII file.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.ft B
.B acpidump > acpidump.out
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBacpidump \fP dumps the systems ACPI tables to an ASCII file
appropriate for attaching to a bug report.

Subsequently, they can be processed by utilities in the ACPICA package.
.SS Options
no options worth worrying about.
.PP
.SH EXAMPLE

.nf
# acpidump > acpidump.out

$ acpixtract -a acpidump.out
        Acpi table [DSDT] -  15974 bytes written to DSDT.dat
        Acpi table [FACS] -     64 bytes written to FACS.dat
        Acpi table [FACP] -    116 bytes written to FACP.dat
        Acpi table [APIC] -    120 bytes written to APIC.dat
        Acpi table [MCFG] -     60 bytes written to MCFG.dat
        Acpi table [SSDT] -    444 bytes written to SSDT1.dat
        Acpi table [SSDT] -    439 bytes written to SSDT2.dat
        Acpi table [SSDT] -    439 bytes written to SSDT3.dat
        Acpi table [SSDT] -    439 bytes written to SSDT4.dat
        Acpi table [SSDT] -    439 bytes written to SSDT5.dat
        Acpi table [RSDT] -     76 bytes written to RSDT.dat
        Acpi table [RSDP] -     20 bytes written to RSDP.dat

$ iasl -d *.dat
...
.fi
creates *.dsl, a human readable form which can be edited
and compiled using iasl.


.SH NOTES

.B "acpidump "
must be run as root.

.SH REFERENCES
ACPICA: https://acpica.org/

.SH FILES
.ta
.nf
/dev/mem
/sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic/*
.fi

.PP
.SH AUTHOR
.nf
Written by Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>