ACPIDUMP(1)

NAME
acpidump - dump a system's ACPI tables to an ASCII file
acpixtract - convert ASCII acpidump output to raw binary table
turbostat - gather performance statistics

SYNOPSIS
acpidump [options]
acpixtract [options] [filename]
turbostat [options] [command [arg]...]

DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the acpidump , acpixtract and turbostat commands. turbostat reads hardware registers and gather statistics on the processor clock frequency and C-state usage. Works properly on Nehalem and newer processors and on Linux kernel 2.6.30 and later versions.

OPTIONS
acpidump options are as follow:

-a, --addr 0x1234
    look for tables at this phisical address

-t, --table DSDT
    only dump table with DSDT signature

-o, --output filename
    redirect output from stdout to filename

-b, --binary
    dump data in binary form rather than in hex-dump format

-l, --lenght 0x456
    works only with --addr, dump phisical memory region without trying to understand it's contents

-s, --skip 2
    skip 2 tables of the given name and output only 3rd one

-h, --help
    outputs an help message

OPTIONS
acpixtract options are as follow:

-a  extract all tables, not just DSDT/SSDT

-l  list table summaries, do not extract

-s<Signature>
    Extract all tables named <Signature>

OPTIONS
turbostat options are as follow:

-v  makes turbostat more verbose

-i <sec>
    polling interval, default is 5

When given a command turbostat runs it and outputs statistics gathered while the program was running.

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 > FACP.dat
    acpixtract -a FACP.dat
    iasl -d FACP.dat

Dump and extract all ACPI tables:
    acpidump -o DSDT.dat
    acpixtract -a

Parse APIC tables:
    acpidump -o DSDT.dat
    acpixtract -sAPIC DSDT.dat

SEE ALSO
iasl(1),

AUTHOR
acpidump was written by Alexey Starikovskiy and Len Brown.

This manual page was written by Mattia Dongili <malattia@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).