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31.Dd November 23, 2016
32.Dt ACPIBIN 8
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm acpibin
36.Nd miscellaneous manipulation of binary ACPI tables
37.Sh SYNOPSIS
38.Nm
39.Op Ar option ...
40.Sh DESCRIPTION
41The following options are supported:
42.Bl -tag -width indent
43.It Fl a Ar file1 Ar file2
44Compare two binary AML files, dump all mismatches.
45.It Fl c Ar file1 Ar file2
46Compare two binary AML files, dump first 100 mismatches.
47.It Fl d Ar in Ar out
48Dump AML binary to text file.
49.It Fl e Ar sig Ar in ar out
50Extract binary AML table from
51.Xr acpidump 8
52file.
53.It Fl h Ar file
54Display table header for binary AML file.
55.It Fl o Ar value
56Start comparison at this offset into second file.
57.It Fl s Ar file
58Update checksum for binary AML file.
59.It Fl t
60Terse mode.
61.It Fl v
62Display version information.
63.El
64.Sh SEE ALSO
65.Xr acpi 4 ,
66.Xr acpicall 8 ,
67.Xr acpiconf 8 ,
68.Xr acpidump 8 ,
69.Xr acpiexec 8 ,
70.Xr acpihelp 8 ,
71.Xr acpinames 8 ,
72.Xr acpixtract 8 ,
73.Xr iasl 8
74.Pp
75.Lk https://acpica.org/documentation/
76.Sh AUTHORS
77The
78.Nm
79utility is provided by
80.Tn Intel
81as part of their
82.Sy ACPICA
83distribution.
84.Pp
85This manual page was written by
86.An Sascha Wildner .
87