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31.Dd May 11, 2018
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 dp
55Disable TermList parsing for scope objects.
56.It Fl dr
57Disable repair of method return values.
58.It Fl ds
59Disable method auto-serialization.
60.It Fl dt
61Disable allocation tracking (performance).
62.It Fl ed
63Enable timer output for Debug Object.
64.It Fl ef
65Enable display of final memory statistics.
66.It Fl ei
67Enable additional tests for ACPICA interfaces.
68.It Fl el
69Enable loading of additional test tables.
70.It Fl em
71Enable (legacy) grouping of module-level code.
72.It Fl es
73Enable Interpreter Slack Mode.
74.It Fl et
75Enable debug semaphore timeout.
76.It Fl fi Ar file
77Specify namespace initialization file.
78.It Fl fv Ar value
79Operation Region initialization fill value.
80.It Fl h
81Display the help message.
82.It Fl \&?
83Alias for
84.Fl h .
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 te
94Exit loop on timeout instead of aborting method.
95.It Fl to Ar seconds
96Set timeout period for AML while loops.
97.It Fl v
98Display version information.
99.It Fl vd
100Display build date and time.
101.It Fl vi
102Verbose initialization output.
103.It Fl vr
104Verbose region handler output.
105.It Fl x Ar debug_level
106Debug output level.
107.El
108.Pp
109From within the interactive mode, use
110.Sq \&?
111or
112.Dq help
113to see a list of available AML Debugger commands.
114.Sh SEE ALSO
115.Xr acpi 4 ,
116.Xr acpibin 8 ,
117.Xr acpicall 8 ,
118.Xr acpiconf 8 ,
119.Xr acpidump 8 ,
120.Xr acpihelp 8 ,
121.Xr acpinames 8 ,
122.Xr acpixtract 8 ,
123.Xr iasl 8
124.Pp
125.Lk https://acpica.org/documentation/
126.Sh AUTHORS
127The
128.Nm
129utility is provided by
130.Tn Intel
131as part of their
132.Sy ACPICA
133distribution.
134.Pp
135This manual page was written by
136.An Sascha Wildner .
137