ECTOOL(8)

✨ ECTOOL — the manual, but make it cute ✨

okay so bestie, this is ectool, and it lives in the System Administration Utilities corner of your manual (section 8, she's an admin girlie 💅). If you've ever wanted to peek inside your laptop's Embedded/Environmental Controller — the EC for short, iykyk — this is the little tool that does it. She dumps RAM. That's the whole vibe. 🫶

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💖 NAME 💖

ectool — dumps the RAM of a laptop's Embedded/Environmental Controller (EC)

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ectool [-vh?Vidq] [-w 0x<addr> -z 0x<data>]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so literally what it says on the tin: it dumps the RAM of a laptop's Embedded/Environmental Controller (EC). That's it. That's the whole job. She's not complicated, she's just good. ✨

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -v, --version — print the version 👑
• -h, --help — print this help 🫶
• -V, --verbose — print debug information 🔍
• -p, --getports — get EC data & cmd ports from /proc/ioports 📍
• -d, --dump — print RAM 💾
• -i, --idx — print IDX RAM & RAM 🌈
• -q, --query — print query byte ❓
• -w <addr in hex> — write to addr ✍️
• -z <data in hex> — write to data ✍️

ngl bestie, when you're using -w and -z you're writing to the EC, so pls be careful and know what you're doing before you poke at hex values. 🙈

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💜 AUTHORS 💜

• coresystems GmbH.
• Man page written by Ahmad Khalifa. 🎀

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and that's the tea, bestie 💅 this page is from November 2024, it's part of System Administration Utilities, and it ships as ECTOOL(8). go forth and dump responsibly, no cap. ✨🦋💖