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31.Dd April 30, 2014
32.Dt ACPIDUMP 8
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm acpidump
36.Nd obtain system ACPI tables and save in ASCII hex format
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 address
44Get table via a physical address.
45.It Fl b
46Dump tables to binary files.
47.It Fl c
48Dump customized tables.
49.It Fl f Ar binary_file
50Get table via a binary file.
51.It Fl h
52Display the help message.
53.It Fl \&?
54Alias for
55.Fl h .
56.It Fl n Ar signature
57Get table via a name/signature.
58.It Fl o Ar file
59Redirect output to file.
60.It Fl r Ar address
61Dump tables from specified RSDP.
62.It Fl s
63Print table summaries only.
64.It Fl v
65Display version information.
66.It Fl x
67Do not use but dump XSDT.
68.It Fl x Fl x
69Do not use or dump XSDT.
70.It Fl z
71Verbose mode.
72.El
73.Sh SEE ALSO
74.Xr acpi 4 ,
75.Xr acpibin 8 ,
76.Xr acpiconf 8 ,
77.Xr acpiexec 8 ,
78.Xr acpihelp 8 ,
79.Xr acpinames 8 ,
80.Xr acpixtract 8 ,
81.Xr iasl 8
82.Pp
83.Lk https://acpica.org/documentation/
84.Sh AUTHORS
85The
86.Nm
87utility is provided by
88.Tn Intel
89as part of their
90.Sy ACPICA
91distribution.
92.Pp
93This manual page was written by
94.An Sascha Wildner .
95