ACPIBIN(1)

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✨ ACPIBIN(1) — General Commands Manual ✨

💖 NAME

okay so acpibin is the ACPI binary AML file utility, bestie 🧚 it's literally the tool for poking at AML binaries 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS

acpibin [<option>...]

🌸 DESCRIPTION

okay so this page is giving a quick intro to the acpibin command 🦋 the option list comes straight from the acpibin interactive help, so you know it's legit 🫶

acpibin is a command that handles some basic and super common stuff on AML binary files ✨ no cap, it's the everyday essentials bag 👜

if you want the deep-dive lore, go check out http://www.acpica.org/documentation/ 📚 it's got way more detail than I can fit here 💜

🔥 OPTIONS

  • -c <file1> <file2> — compare two binary AML files, side by side, no drama 👀
  • -d <in> <out> — dump an AML binary out to a text file 📝
  • -e <sig> <in> <out> — extract a binary AML table from an acpidump file 🎁
  • -h <file> — display the table header for a binary AML file 🩺
  • -s <file> — update the checksum for a binary AML file 🔐
  • -t — terse mode, for when you want it short and sweet 🍓

👑 AUTHOR

acpibin was written by Robert Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> 🧑‍💻 he's the main character of this whole tool, obsessed with it, iconic behavior 🌈

this manual page was written by Al Stone <ahs3@redhat.com> for the Fedora project 🎩 (but it's giving open-share energy, so others are welcome to use it too 🫶)

ACPIBIN(1) · acpica source / version and date: January 23, 2013 🌸 stay curious, stay gorgeous, and never stop reading manpages, bestie 💅✨

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