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.Dd May 29, 2020
.Dt ACPIBIN 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm acpibin
.Nd miscellaneous manipulation of binary ACPI tables
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Ar option ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The following options are supported:
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl a Ar file1 Ar file2
Compare two binary AML files, dump all mismatches.
.It Fl c Ar file1 Ar file2
Compare two binary AML files, dump first 100 mismatches.
.It Fl d Ar in Ar out
Dump AML binary to text file.
.It Fl h Ar file
Display table header for binary AML file.
.It Fl o Ar value
Start comparison at this offset into second file.
.It Fl s Ar file
Update checksum for binary AML file.
.It Fl t
Terse mode.
.It Fl v
Display version information.
.It Fl vd
Display build date and time.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr acpi 4 ,
.Xr acpicall 8 ,
.Xr acpiconf 8 ,
.Xr acpidump 8 ,
.Xr acpiexec 8 ,
.Xr acpihelp 8 ,
.Xr acpixtract 8 ,
.Xr iasl 8
.Pp
.Lk https://acpica.org/documentation/
.Sh AUTHORS
The
.Nm
utility is provided by
.Tn Intel
as part of their
.Sy ACPICA
distribution.
.Pp
This manual page was written by
.An Sascha Wildner .