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authorLv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>2014-01-14 23:04:09 -0500
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>2014-01-15 19:50:31 -0500
commitf677b30b487ca3763c3de3f1b4d8c976c2961cd1 (patch)
tree49126e58783452887882371e8afd44d29a02ac98 /tools/power/acpi/man
parent7e22e91102c6b9df7c4ae2168910e19d2bb14cd6 (diff)
ACPICA: acpidump: Cleanup tools/power/acpi makefiles.
This patch cleans up old tools/power/acpi Makefile for further porting, make it compiled in a similar way as the other tools. No functional changes. The CFLAGS is modified as follows: 1. Previous cc flags: -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Os -s \ -D_LINUX -DDEFINE_ALTERNATE_TYPES -I../../../include 2. Current cc flags: DEBUG=false: -D_LINUX -DDEFINE_ALTERNATE_TYPES -I../../../include -Wall \ -Wstrict-prototypes -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Os \ -fomit-frame-pointer Normal: -D_LINUX -DDEFINE_ALTERNATE_TYPES -I../../../include -Wall \ -Wstrict-prototypes -Wdeclaration-after-statement -O1 -g -DDEBUG There is only one difference: -fomit-frame-pointer. Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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1.TH ACPIDUMP 8
2.SH NAME
3acpidump \- Dump system's ACPI tables to an ASCII file.
4.SH SYNOPSIS
5.ft B
6.B acpidump > acpidump.out
7.SH DESCRIPTION
8\fBacpidump \fP dumps the systems ACPI tables to an ASCII file
9appropriate for attaching to a bug report.
10
11Subsequently, they can be processed by utilities in the ACPICA package.
12.SS Options
13no options worth worrying about.
14.PP
15.SH EXAMPLE
16
17.nf
18# acpidump > acpidump.out
19
20$ acpixtract -a acpidump.out
21 Acpi table [DSDT] - 15974 bytes written to DSDT.dat
22 Acpi table [FACS] - 64 bytes written to FACS.dat
23 Acpi table [FACP] - 116 bytes written to FACP.dat
24 Acpi table [APIC] - 120 bytes written to APIC.dat
25 Acpi table [MCFG] - 60 bytes written to MCFG.dat
26 Acpi table [SSDT] - 444 bytes written to SSDT1.dat
27 Acpi table [SSDT] - 439 bytes written to SSDT2.dat
28 Acpi table [SSDT] - 439 bytes written to SSDT3.dat
29 Acpi table [SSDT] - 439 bytes written to SSDT4.dat
30 Acpi table [SSDT] - 439 bytes written to SSDT5.dat
31 Acpi table [RSDT] - 76 bytes written to RSDT.dat
32 Acpi table [RSDP] - 20 bytes written to RSDP.dat
33
34$ iasl -d *.dat
35...
36.fi
37creates *.dsl, a human readable form which can be edited
38and compiled using iasl.
39
40
41.SH NOTES
42
43.B "acpidump "
44must be run as root.
45
46.SH REFERENCES
47ACPICA: https://acpica.org/
48
49.SH FILES
50.ta
51.nf
52/dev/mem
53/sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic/*
54.fi
55
56.PP
57.SH AUTHOR
58.nf
59Written by Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>