ACPIEXEC(1)

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✨ ACPIEXEC(1) — General Commands Manual ✨

🦋 Okay bestie, this is the manual page for acpiexec, the ACPI AML execution and debug utility! 💖

🌸 NAME

acpiexec — ACPI AML execution and debug utility 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS

acpiexec [<option>...] <aml-file> ...

💜 DESCRIPTION

So okay, this page quickly covers the acpiexec command, and the option list is pulled straight from the acpiexec interactive help. Iconic sourcing, no cap 🫶

acpiexec gives you a simulated execution environment for AML code, so testing and debugging it is literally so much easier ✨ It's giving main character energy for firmware devs 👑

If you want the full deep-dive, the detailed docs live at http://www.acpica.org/documentation/ 🌈

🍓 OPTIONS

  • -? — Pull up the help message 🧚
  • -b command-line — Batch mode command line execution, where you chain commands like cmd1;cmd2;... 💅
  • -M [<method>] — Batch mode method execution. If you don't name one, it defaults to MAIN 🔥
  • -da — Disable method abort on error 🙈
  • -di — Disable execution of _STA/_INI methods during init 💀
  • -do — Disable Operation Region address simulation 🌸
  • -dr — Disable repair of method return values 🦋
  • -dt — Disable allocation tracking (this one's for performance) ⭐
  • -ef — Enable display of final memory statistics 💜
  • -ei — Enable additional tests for ACPICA interfaces 🎀
  • -em — Enable interpreter Serialized mode 🫶
  • -es — Enable interpreter Slack mode 👑
  • -et — Enable debug semaphore timeout (the original page spells it "timeour", bestie, but we know what it means 😭) 🌈
  • -f <value> — Set the Operation Region initialization fill value ✨
  • -r — Use hardware-reduced FADT V5 🧚
  • -vi — Verbose initialization output 💖
  • -vr — Verbose region handler output 🍓
  • -x <debug-level> — Set the debug output level 🔥

🦋 AUTHOR

acpiexec was written by Robert Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> — absolute legend 👑

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

Bye bestie, this page is dated January 23, 2013, and it's from ACPIEXEC(1) 💖🦋✨

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