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31.Dd September 4, 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 ep
69Enable TermList parsing for scope objects.
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 i Ar count
84Set maximum iterations for AML while loops.
85.It Fl l
86Load tables and namespace only.
87.It Fl m Op Ar method
88Batch mode method execution.
89The default method is
90.Sy MAIN .
91.It Fl r
92Use hardware-reduced FADT V5.
93.It Fl v
94Display version information.
95.It Fl vd
96Display build date and time.
97.It Fl vi
98Verbose initialization output.
99.It Fl vr
100Verbose region handler output.
101.It Fl x Ar debug_level
102Debug output level.
103.El
104.Pp
105From within the interactive mode, use
106.Sq \&?
107or
108.Dq help
109to see a list of available AML Debugger commands.
110.Sh SEE ALSO
111.Xr acpi 4 ,
112.Xr acpibin 8 ,
113.Xr acpicall 8 ,
114.Xr acpiconf 8 ,
115.Xr acpidump 8 ,
116.Xr acpihelp 8 ,
117.Xr acpinames 8 ,
118.Xr acpixtract 8 ,
119.Xr iasl 8
120.Pp
121.Lk https://acpica.org/documentation/
122.Sh AUTHORS
123The
124.Nm
125utility is provided by
126.Tn Intel
127as part of their
128.Sy ACPICA
129distribution.
130.Pp
131This manual page was written by
132.An Sascha Wildner .
133