xref: /dragonfly/usr.sbin/acpi/acpicall/acpicall.8 (revision 25391871)
1.\"
2.\" Copyright (c) 2015 The DragonFly Project.  All rights reserved.
3.\"
4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
6.\" are met:
7.\"
8.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
9.\"    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
10.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
11.\"    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in
12.\"    the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
13.\"    distribution.
14.\" 3. Neither the name of The DragonFly Project nor the names of its
15.\"    contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived
16.\"    from this software without specific, prior written permission.
17.\"
18.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
19.\" ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
20.\" LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS
21.\" FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
22.\" COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
23.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING,
24.\" BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES;
25.\" LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED
26.\" AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY,
27.\" OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT
28.\" OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
29.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
30.\"
31.Dd August 31, 2015
32.Dt ACPICALL 8
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm acpicall
36.Nd call ACPI methods
37.Sh SYNOPSIS
38.Nm
39.Op Fl hv
40.Op Fl b Ar hexstring
41.Op Fl d Ar file
42.Op Fl i Ar number
43.Op Fl o Ar i | s | b | o
44.Op Fl s Ar string
45.Ar path
46.Sh DESCRIPTION
47The
48.Nm
49utility calls the ACPI method
50.Ar path
51with the arguments specified by any
52.Fl b ,
53.Fl i ,
54.Fl o ,
55and
56.Fl s
57options.
58The
59.Ar path
60argument must be a full ACPI namespace path such as
61.Pa \e_SB.PCI0.PEGR.GFX0._DSM .
62.Pp
63Note that in order to be able to use the
64.Nm
65utility, the
66.Va debug.acpi.allow_method_calls
67loader tunable must be specified in
68.Pa /boot/loader.conf .
69.Pp
70The following options are supported:
71.Bl -tag -width indent
72.It Fl b Ar hexstring
73Pass
74.Ar hexstring
75as a buffer argument.
76.It Fl d Ar file
77Specify the path of the ACPI control device.
78The default is
79.Pa /dev/acpi .
80.It Fl i Ar number
81Pass
82.Ar number
83as an integer argument.
84.It Fl o Ar i | s | b | o
85Choose the format to print the result in:
86.Ar ( i ) Ns nteger ,
87.Ar ( s ) Ns tring ,
88.Ar ( b ) Ns uffer ,
89or
90.Ar ( o ) Ns bject .
91.It Fl s Ar string
92Pass
93.Ar string
94as a string argument.
95.It Fl v
96Increase verbosity.
97.El
98.Sh EXAMPLES
99Note that many ACPI methods are specific to the BIOS and machine in
100question, so it is impossible to present any generic examples that will
101work everywhere.
102Some familiarity with ASL and the DSDT code of the specific machine to
103be tweaked is highly recommended.
104.Pp
105The following calls were successfully used to turn off the discrete
106.Tn NVIDIA
107GPU on the
108.Tn Optimus
109based
110.Tn Asus K53SV
111laptop:
112.Bd -literal
113acpicall -b "f8d886a4da0b1b47a72b6042a6b5bee0" \e
114         -i 256 -i 26 -b "01000003" "\e_SB.PCI0.PEGR.GFX0._DSM"
115
116acpicall "\e_SB.PCI0.PEGR.GFX0._PS3"
117.Ed
118.Sh SEE ALSO
119.Xr acpi 4 ,
120.Xr acpibin 8 ,
121.Xr acpiconf 8 ,
122.Xr acpidump 8 ,
123.Xr acpiexec 8 ,
124.Xr acpihelp 8 ,
125.Xr acpinames 8 ,
126.Xr acpixtract 8 ,
127.Xr iasl 8
128.Sh AUTHORS
129.Nm
130is based on the
131.Nm acpi_call
132utility by
133.An Maxim Ignatenko Aq Mt gelraen.ua@gmail.com .
134This manual page was written by
135.An Sascha Wildner .
136