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$FreeBSD: src/usr.sbin/acpi/acpidump/acpidump.8,v 1.9 2001/09/05 19:21:25 dd Exp $
.Dd $Mdocdate: June 4 2008 $ .Dt ACPIDUMP 8 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm acpidump .Nd dump ACPI tables .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Op Fl f Ar dsdt_file_for_input .Nm .Op Fl o Ar prefix_for_output .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm command analyzes ACPI tables in physical memory and dumps them to standard output. In addition, .Nm can disassemble some contents of the tables in AML (ACPI Machine Language) and dump them in ASL (ACPI Source Language).
p ACPI tables have an notably essential data block called DSDT (Differentiated System Description Table), that includes information used on the kernel side such as detailed information about PnP hardware, procedures for controlling power management support, and so on. .Nm can extract a DSDT data block from physical memory and store it into a DSDT data file, and can also generate an output in ASL from a given DSDT data file.
p The options are as follows: l -tag -width indent t Fl f Ar dsdt_file_for_input Interpret AML data in DSDT from a file specified in .Ar dsdt_file_for_input and dumps them in ASL to standard output. t Fl o Ar prefix_for_output Store ACPI tables from physical memory into files specified by .Ar prefix_for_output . The files generated will be of the form <prefix>.<sig>.<id>. .Dq sig is the signature of the ACPI Table; .Dq id is unique for each table.
p The following are common table signatures (there may be others): RSDP, FACP, DSDT, SSDT, HPET, MCFG, SPMI, APIC, SPCR, SRAT, XSDT. .El
p When .Nm is invoked with no options, it will search ACPI tables from physical memory via a special file
a /dev/mem and dump them. First, it searches Root System Description Pointer, that has a signature .Qq RSD PTR , and then gets RSDT (Root System Description Table), which includes a list of pointers to physical memory addresses for other tables. RSDT itself and all other tables linked from RSDT are generically called SDT (System Description Table) and their header has the common format which consists of items such as Signature, Length, Revision, Checksum, OEMID, OEM Table ID, OEM Revision, Creator ID, and Creator Revision. .Nm dumps the contents of these SDTs. For further information about the formats of each table, see chapter 5: ACPI Software Programming Model, .Dq Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Specification Revision 1.0b from Intel/Microsoft/Toshiba.
p
There is always a pointer to a physical memory address in RSDT for FACP
(Fixed ACPI Description Table).
FACP defines static system information about power management support
(ACPI Hardware Register Implementation)
such as interrupt mode
(INT_MODEL),
SCI interrupt number, SMI command port
(SMI_CMD),
and the location of ACPI registers.
FACP also has a pointer to a physical memory address for DSDT,
which includes information used on the kernel side such as
PnP, power management support, and so on.
While the other tables are described in a fixed format,
DSDT consists of AML data which is compiled from sources
written in free formatted ASL, a description language for ACPI.
When
.Nm
outputs DSDT, it disassembles the AML data and
translates them into ASL.
.Sh FILES
l -tag -width /dev/mem t Pa /dev/mem .El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr acpi 4 ,
.Xr mem 4
.Xr acpiconf 8 ,
Xr amldb 8
.Rs
.%T Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Specification
.%A Intel
.%A Microsoft
.%A Toshiba
.%R Revision 1.0b
.Re
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
command first appeared in
.Ox 3.8 .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Doug Rabson Aq dfr@FreeBSD.org
.An Mitsuru IWASAKI Aq iwasaki@FreeBSD.org
.An Yasuo YOKOYAMA Aq yokoyama@jp.FreeBSD.org
p Some contributions made by: .An Chitoshi Ohsawa Aq ohsawa@catv1.ccn-net.ne.jp , .An Takayasu IWANASHI Aq takayasu@wendy.a.perfect-liberty.or.jp , .An Yoshihiko SARUMARU Aq mistral@imasy.or.jp , .An Hiroki Sato Aq hrs@FreeBSD.org , .An Jordan Hargrave Aq jordan@openbsd.org and .An Michael Lucas Aq mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org . .Sh BUGS In the current implementation, .Nm doesn't dump any information of Firmware ACPI Control Structure (FACS) specified by a pointer in FACP.