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31.Dd January 9, 2019
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 loading DSDT/SSDT as a control method
56(enable legacy grouping of module-level code).
57.It Fl dr
58Disable repair of method return values.
59.It Fl ds
60Disable method auto-serialization.
61.It Fl dt
62Disable allocation tracking (performance).
63.It Fl ed
64Enable timer output for Debug Object.
65.It Fl ef
66Enable display of final memory statistics.
67.It Fl ei
68Enable additional tests for ACPICA interfaces.
69.It Fl el
70Enable loading of additional test tables.
71.It Fl eo
72Enable object evaluation log.
73.It Fl es
74Enable Interpreter Slack Mode.
75.It Fl et
76Enable debug semaphore timeout.
77.It Fl fi Ar file
78Specify namespace initialization file.
79.It Fl fv Ar value
80Operation Region initialization fill value.
81.It Fl h
82Display the help message.
83.It Fl \&?
84Alias for
85.Fl h .
86.It Fl l
87Load tables and namespace only.
88.It Fl m Op Ar method
89Batch mode method execution.
90The default method is
91.Sy MAIN .
92.It Fl r
93Use hardware-reduced FADT V5.
94.It Fl te
95Exit loop on timeout instead of aborting method.
96.It Fl to Ar seconds
97Set timeout period for AML while loops.
98.It Fl v
99Display version information.
100.It Fl va
101Display verbose dump of any memory leaks.
102.It Fl vd
103Display build date and time.
104.It Fl vh
105Verbose exception handler output.
106.It Fl vi
107Verbose initialization output.
108.It Fl vr
109Verbose region handler output.
110.It Fl x Ar debug_level
111Debug output level.
112.El
113.Pp
114From within the interactive mode, use
115.Sq \&?
116or
117.Dq help
118to see a list of available AML Debugger commands.
119.Sh SEE ALSO
120.Xr acpi 4 ,
121.Xr acpibin 8 ,
122.Xr acpicall 8 ,
123.Xr acpiconf 8 ,
124.Xr acpidump 8 ,
125.Xr acpihelp 8 ,
126.Xr acpinames 8 ,
127.Xr acpixtract 8 ,
128.Xr iasl 8
129.Pp
130.Lk https://acpica.org/documentation/
131.Sh AUTHORS
132The
133.Nm
134utility is provided by
135.Tn Intel
136as part of their
137.Sy ACPICA
138distribution.
139.Pp
140This manual page was written by
141.An Sascha Wildner .
142