Commit 6c870213 authored by Lv Zheng's avatar Lv Zheng Committed by Rafael J. Wysocki
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ACPICA: acpidump: Update man page. 



This patch updates man file of acpidump.

Signed-off-by: default avatarLv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
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Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
parent bf5afef9

tools/power/acpi/man/acpidump.8

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.TH ACPIDUMP 8

.SH NAME

acpidump \- Dump system's ACPI tables to an ASCII file.

acpidump \- dump a system's ACPI tables to an ASCII file



.SH SYNOPSIS

.ft B

.B acpidump > acpidump.out

.B acpidump

.RI [ options ]

.br



.SH DESCRIPTION

\fBacpidump \fP dumps the systems ACPI tables to an ASCII file

appropriate for attaching to a bug report.

.B acpidump

dumps the systems ACPI tables to an ASCII file appropriate for

attaching to a bug report.



Subsequently, they can be processed by utilities in the ACPICA package.

.SS Options

no options worth worrying about.

.PP

.SH EXAMPLE



.SH OPTIONS

acpidump options are as follow:

.TP

.B Options

.TP

.B \-b

Dump tables to binary files

.TP

.B \-c

Dump customized tables

.TP

.B \-h \-?

This help message

.TP

.B \-o <File>

Redirect output to file

.TP

.B \-r <Address>

Dump tables from specified RSDP

.TP

.B \-s

Print table summaries only

.TP

.B \-v

Display version information

.TP

.B \-z

Verbose mode

.TP

.B Table Options

.TP

.B \-a <Address>

Get table via a physical address

.TP

.B \-f <BinaryFile>

Get table via a binary file

.TP

.B \-n <Signature>

Get table via a name/signature

.TP

Invocation without parameters dumps all available tables

.TP

Multiple mixed instances of -a, -f, and -n are supported



.SH EXAMPLES



.nf

# acpidump > acpidump.out
@@ -50,10 +96,25 @@ ACPICA: https://acpica.org/ 
.ta

.nf

/dev/mem

/sys/firmware/acpi/tables/*

/sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic/*

/sys/firmware/efi/systab

.fi



.PP

.SH AUTHOR

.nf

Written by Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
 
.TP

Original by:

 Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

.TP

Written by:

 Chao Guan <chao.guan@intel.com>

.TP

Updated by:

 Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>

 Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>



.SH SEE ALSO

\&\fIacpixtract\fR\|(8), \fIiasl\fR\|(8).



.SH COPYRIGHT

COPYRIGHT (c) 2013, Intel Corporation.