acpidump(1) User Commands acpidump(1)NAMEacpidump - dump the raw contents of ACPI tables
SYNOPSISacpidump [-a address] [-b] [-h]
[-l length] [-o file] [-s count]
[-t table]
DESCRIPTION
This utility will read the ACPI tables, if any, that were presented to
the kernel from the BIOS at boot and display the information. The
tables will be printed out in hexidecimal format and can be parsed with
the acpixtract(1) and madt(1) utilities.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-a [address]
Allows the user to specify the starting address from which to dump
the tables.
-b
Dump the ACPI tables in binary mode.
-h
Display the help menu containing the options supported by the util‐
ity.
-l [length]
Requires a starting address, specified with -a, and will dump the
range of physical address but makes no attempt to understand the
contents of that memory.
-o [file]
Redirect the output provided by the utility to the specified file.
-s [count]
Skip count tables of the given name
-t [table]
Dump only the table with the table signature.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌────────────────────┬─────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
│Availability │ diagnostic/acpidump │
├────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
│Interface Stability │ Uncommitted │
└────────────────────┴─────────────────────┘
SEE ALSOacpixtract(1), madt(1)RESOURCES
http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/acpi/utilities.php
NOTES
Source for acpidump is avaliable at www.opensolaris.org. The
PRIV_FILE_DAC_READ privilege is necessary to use this utility.
SunOS 5.11 24 Apr 2009 acpidump(1)