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31.Dd May 29, 2020
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 df
49Disable Local fault handler.
50.It Fl di
51Disable execution of STA/INI methods during init.
52.It Fl do
53Disable Operation Region address simulation.
54.It Fl dr
55Disable repair of method return values.
56.It Fl ds
57Disable method auto-serialization.
58.It Fl dt
59Disable allocation tracking (performance).
60.It Fl ed
61Enable timer output for Debug Object.
62.It Fl ef
63Enable display of final memory statistics.
64.It Fl ei
65Enable additional tests for ACPICA interfaces.
66.It Fl el
67Enable loading of additional test tables.
68.It Fl eo
69Enable object evaluation log.
70.It Fl es
71Enable Interpreter Slack Mode.
72.It Fl et
73Enable debug semaphore timeout.
74.It Fl fi Ar file
75Specify namespace initialization file.
76.It Fl fv Ar value
77Operation Region initialization fill value.
78.It Fl h
79Display the help message.
80.It Fl \&?
81Alias for
82.Fl h .
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 te
92Exit loop on timeout instead of aborting method.
93.It Fl to Ar seconds
94Set timeout period for AML while loops.
95.It Fl v
96Display version information.
97.It Fl va
98Display verbose dump of any memory leaks.
99.It Fl vd
100Display build date and time.
101.It Fl vh
102Verbose exception handler output.
103.It Fl vi
104Verbose initialization output.
105.It Fl vr
106Verbose region handler output.
107.It Fl x Ar debug_level
108Debug output level.
109.El
110.Pp
111From within the interactive mode, use
112.Sq \&?
113or
114.Dq help
115to see a list of available AML Debugger commands.
116.Sh SEE ALSO
117.Xr acpi 4 ,
118.Xr acpibin 8 ,
119.Xr acpicall 8 ,
120.Xr acpiconf 8 ,
121.Xr acpidump 8 ,
122.Xr acpihelp 8 ,
123.Xr acpixtract 8 ,
124.Xr iasl 8
125.Pp
126.Lk https://acpica.org/documentation/
127.Sh AUTHORS
128The
129.Nm
130utility is provided by
131.Tn Intel
132as part of their
133.Sy ACPICA
134distribution.
135.Pp
136This manual page was written by
137.An Sascha Wildner .
138