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32.Dd $Mdocdate: March 13 2014 $
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_for_output
41.Sh DESCRIPTION
42The
43.Nm
44command stores ACPI tables from physical memory into files specified by
45.Ar prefix_for_output .
46The files generated will
47be of the form <prefix>.<sig>.<id>.
48.Dq sig
49is the signature of the ACPI Table;
50.Dq id
51is unique for each table.
52.Pp
53Additionally a file called <prefix>.headers will be created that contains
54additional human readable information pertaining to this specific dump.
55.Pp
56The ACPICA disassembler is available through the
57.Ox
58ports tree or package system:
59.Bd -literal -offset indent
60# pkg_add acpica
61$ iasl -d <prefix>.<sig>.<id>
62.Ed
63.Sh FILES
64.Bl -tag -width /dev/mem
65.It Pa /dev/mem
66.El
67.Sh SEE ALSO
68.Xr pkg_add 1 ,
69.Xr mem 4 ,
70.Xr packages 7 ,
71.Xr ports 7
72.Sh HISTORY
73The
74.Nm
75command first appeared in
76.Ox 3.8 .
77