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31.Dd January 6, 2016
32.Dt ACPIEXEC 8
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm acpiexec
36.Nd load ACPI tables and execute control methods from user space
37.Sh SYNOPSIS
38.Nm
39.Op Ar option ...
40.Ar aml_file ...
41.Sh DESCRIPTION
42The following options are supported:
43.Bl -tag -width indent
44.It Fl b Ar \&"command_line\&"
45Batch mode command line execution (cmd1;cmd2;...).
46.It Fl da
47Disable method abort on error.
48.It Fl di
49Disable execution of STA/INI methods during init.
50.It Fl do
51Disable Operation Region address simulation.
52.It Fl dr
53Disable repair of method return values.
54.It Fl ds
55Disable method auto-serialization.
56.It Fl dt
57Disable allocation tracking (performance).
58.It Fl ed
59Enable timer output for Debug Object.
60.It Fl ef
61Enable display of final memory statistics.
62.It Fl ei
63Enable additional tests for ACPICA interfaces.
64.It Fl el
65Enable loading of additional test tables.
66.It Fl em
67Enable grouping of module-level code.
68.It Fl es
69Enable Interpreter Slack Mode.
70.It Fl et
71Enable debug semaphore timeout.
72.It Fl fi Ar file
73Specify namespace initialization file.
74.It Fl fv Ar value
75Operation Region initialization fill value.
76.It Fl h
77Display the help message.
78.It Fl \&?
79Alias for
80.Fl h .
81.It Fl i Ar count
82Set maximum iterations for AML while loops.
83.It Fl l
84Load tables and namespace only.
85.It Fl m Op Ar method
86Batch mode method execution.
87The default method is
88.Sy MAIN .
89.It Fl r
90Use hardware-reduced FADT V5.
91.It Fl v
92Display version information.
93.It Fl vi
94Verbose initialization output.
95.It Fl vr
96Verbose region handler output.
97.It Fl x Ar debug_level
98Debug output level.
99.El
100.Pp
101From within the interactive mode, use
102.Sq \&?
103or
104.Dq help
105to see a list of available AML Debugger commands.
106.Sh SEE ALSO
107.Xr acpi 4 ,
108.Xr acpibin 8 ,
109.Xr acpicall 8 ,
110.Xr acpiconf 8 ,
111.Xr acpidump 8 ,
112.Xr acpihelp 8 ,
113.Xr acpinames 8 ,
114.Xr acpixtract 8 ,
115.Xr iasl 8
116.Pp
117.Lk https://acpica.org/documentation/
118.Sh AUTHORS
119The
120.Nm
121utility is provided by
122.Tn Intel
123as part of their
124.Sy ACPICA
125distribution.
126.Pp
127This manual page was written by
128.An Sascha Wildner .
129