INTELTOOL(8)

💖 INTELTOOL(8) — System Manager's Manual, section 8 💖

okay bestie, welcome to inteltool, the little tool from the System Manager's Manual section 8 that spills all the tea on your Intel(R) hardware 💅

✨ NAME ✨

inteltool — a tool for dumping Intel(R) CPU / chipset configuration parameters 🧚

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

inteltool [-vh?gGrpmedPMaAsfS]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

inteltool is a handy little tool for dumping the configuration space of Intel(R) CPUs, northbridges and southbridges. like, it just goes and reads all the config registers and shows you what's in them. no cap. 🔥

This tool has been developed for the coreboot project (see https://coreboot.org for details on coreboot). it's coreboot's baby, fr fr 🫶

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -h, --help — show a help text and exit. the classic "pls explain" button 💖
• -v, --version — show version information and exit. who am i, what am i, what version am i 🎀
• -a, --all — dump all known information listed below. the everything-everywhere-all-at-once option, periodt ✨
• -g, --gpio — dump I/O Controller Hub (ICH) southbridge GPIO registers. the pins!! 👑
• -G, --gpio-diffs — show only GPIO register differences from hardware defaults. just the glow-up, none of the baseline 🌈
• -r, --rcba — dump I/O Controller Hub (ICH) southbridge RCBA registers.
• -s, --spi — dump I/O Controller Hub (ICH) southbridge SPI registers and BIOS control.
• -f, --gfx — dump graphics registers. Due to unknown reasons this might lock up some systems after a few seconds.

⚠️ bestie, be careful with that one. --gfx might lock up some systems after a few seconds, and the reason is genuinely unknown. not a vibe. 💀

• -p, --pmbase — dump I/O Controller Hub (ICH) southbridge PMBASE registers.
• -m, --mchbar — dump Intel(R) northbridge MCHBAR registers.
• -S file, --spd=file — dump the memory registers as above and store the current timing settings into file. it's giving "receipts, saved to disk" 📝
• -e, --epbar — dump Intel(R) northbridge EPBAR registers.
• -d, --dmibar — dump Intel(R) northbridge DMIBAR registers.
• -P, --pciexbar — dump Intel(R) northbridge PCIEXBAR registers.
• -M, --msrs — dump Intel(R) CPU MSRs.
• -A, --ambs — dump Advanced Memory Buffer (AMB) registers.

💀 BUGS 💀

Please report any bugs on the coreboot mailing list (https://coreboot.org/Mailinglist). don't suffer in silence, tell the group chat 🙈

📜 LICENCE 📜

inteltool is covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2. iconic, legally iconic 💜

©️ COPYRIGHT ©️

Copyright (C) 2008 coresystems GmbH

🫶 AUTHORS 🫶

Stefan Reinauer <stepan@coresystems.de>

This manual page was written by Stefan Reinauer <stepan@coresystems.de>. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL (version 2).

Intel(R) is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. Other product and/or company names mentioned herein may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

and that's the whole page bestie 💖 written up in the INTELTOOL(8) page of the System Manager's Manual, dated 2008, and yeah the footer is literally just the manual name again — so consider this your cute little sign-off: go forth, dump those registers, and stay hydrated ✨🎀🦋💅