ACPIDUMP(1)

✨ ACPIDUMP(1) ✨ — General Commands Manual 🎀

NAME

okay so the manual name is acpidump 💖 it's the ACPI table dump utility bestie, and it's giving "pull the firmware tables out of the running kernel" energy 🧚

🦋 SYNOPSIS

acpidump [<option>...]

🌸 DESCRIPTION

okay so this page is a quick little tour of the acpidump command 💅 the option list is pulled straight from the interactive help, so it's the source of truth bestie 🫶

the main vibe: acpidump extracts the ACPI tables that are currently in use from the running kernel 🔥 and it saves them in a form you can feed into the acpixtract command later for processing ✨

literally just running acpidump with no parameters dumps all available ACPI tables 😭 but you can also mix and match the -a, -f, and -n parameters as many times as you want, multiple mixed instances are totally allowed 💜

👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -b — dump the tables in binary format instead of the default human-readable form 🤖
• -h | -? — display the help message 🙈
• -o <file> — redirect the output to a file 🍓 this file can be used later by acpixtract to examine the table contents 💖
• -s — print table summaries only ✨
• -v — print the version of this utility 🌈
• -z — verbose mode, for when you want all the tea ☕💅
• -a <address> — get a table from a physical address 💀 this one needs superuser privileges and you have to be super careful which address you use 🫣 dmesg will typically report the addresses for the various tables, so that's your friend here 🧚
• -f <binary-file> — get a table from a binary file (see the -b option) 🦋
• -n <signature> — get a table via its name or signature, like MADT or SSDT 🎀

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

• acpixtract(1) 💜

💅 AUTHOR 💅

acpidump was written by Robert Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> and Chao Guan <chao.guan@intel.com> 👑

this manual page was written by Al Stone <ahs3@redhat.com> for the Fedora project (but may be used by others) 🌈

bestie that's the whole thing, ACPIDUMP(1) signing off, July 24, 2013 💖✨🦋