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32.Dd $Mdocdate: November 22 2020 $
33.Dt ACPIDUMP 8
34.Os
35.Sh NAME
36.Nm acpidump
37.Nd dump ACPI tables
38.Sh SYNOPSIS
39.Nm
40.Fl o Ar prefix
41.Sh DESCRIPTION
42The
43.Nm
44command stores ACPI tables from physical memory into files specified by
45.Ar prefix .
46If
47.Ar prefix
48specifies a directory, the generated files will be of the form
49<prefix>/<sig>.<id>.
50Otherwise, they will be named <prefix>.<sig>.<id>.
51.Dq sig
52is the signature of the ACPI Table;
53.Dq id
54is unique for each table.
55.Pp
56Additionally a file called <prefix>/headers or <prefix>.headers will
57be created that contains additional human readable information
58pertaining to this specific dump.
59.Pp
60The ACPICA disassembler is available through the
61.Ox
62ports tree or package system:
63.Bd -literal -offset indent
64# pkg_add acpica
65$ iasl -d <prefix>.<sig>.<id>
66.Ed
67.Pp
68.Nm
69requires the ability to open
70.Pa /dev/kmem ,
71which may be restricted based upon the value of the
72.Ar kern.allowkmem
73.Xr sysctl 8 .
74.Pp
75.Nm
76is run at startup and stores the results in
77.Pa /var/db/acpi .
78.Sh FILES
79.Bl -tag -width /dev/mem
80.It Pa /dev/mem
81.It Pa /var/db/acpi
82.El
83.Sh SEE ALSO
84.Xr pkg_add 1 ,
85.Xr mem 4 ,
86.Xr packages 7 ,
87.Xr ports 7
88.Sh HISTORY
89The
90.Nm
91command first appeared in
92.Ox 3.8 .
93