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authorLv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>2014-04-04 00:40:09 -0400
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>2014-04-20 16:59:40 -0400
commit6c870213d6f3a25981c10728f46294a3bed1703f (patch)
treef67a0d4cc75ea7e71543c4fe9a3e252a21ac6bd8 /tools
parentbf5afef9922624d0bb43375dabca639652e3aeec (diff)
ACPICA: acpidump: Update man page.
This patch updates man file of acpidump. Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com> [rjw: Subject] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/power/acpi/man/acpidump.885
1 files changed, 73 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/tools/power/acpi/man/acpidump.8 b/tools/power/acpi/man/acpidump.8
index adfa99166e5e..38f095d86b52 100644
--- a/tools/power/acpi/man/acpidump.8
+++ b/tools/power/acpi/man/acpidump.8
@@ -1,18 +1,64 @@
1.TH ACPIDUMP 8 1.TH ACPIDUMP 8
2.SH NAME 2.SH NAME
3acpidump \- Dump system's ACPI tables to an ASCII file. 3acpidump \- dump a system's ACPI tables to an ASCII file
4
4.SH SYNOPSIS 5.SH SYNOPSIS
5.ft B 6.B acpidump
6.B acpidump > acpidump.out 7.RI [ options ]
8.br
9
7.SH DESCRIPTION 10.SH DESCRIPTION
8\fBacpidump \fP dumps the systems ACPI tables to an ASCII file 11.B acpidump
9appropriate for attaching to a bug report. 12dumps the systems ACPI tables to an ASCII file appropriate for
13attaching to a bug report.
10 14
11Subsequently, they can be processed by utilities in the ACPICA package. 15Subsequently, they can be processed by utilities in the ACPICA package.
12.SS Options 16
13no options worth worrying about. 17.SH OPTIONS
14.PP 18acpidump options are as follow:
15.SH EXAMPLE 19.TP
20.B Options
21.TP
22.B \-b
23Dump tables to binary files
24.TP
25.B \-c
26Dump customized tables
27.TP
28.B \-h \-?
29This help message
30.TP
31.B \-o <File>
32Redirect output to file
33.TP
34.B \-r <Address>
35Dump tables from specified RSDP
36.TP
37.B \-s
38Print table summaries only
39.TP
40.B \-v
41Display version information
42.TP
43.B \-z
44Verbose mode
45.TP
46.B Table Options
47.TP
48.B \-a <Address>
49Get table via a physical address
50.TP
51.B \-f <BinaryFile>
52Get table via a binary file
53.TP
54.B \-n <Signature>
55Get table via a name/signature
56.TP
57Invocation without parameters dumps all available tables
58.TP
59Multiple mixed instances of -a, -f, and -n are supported
60
61.SH EXAMPLES
16 62
17.nf 63.nf
18# acpidump > acpidump.out 64# acpidump > acpidump.out
@@ -50,10 +96,25 @@ ACPICA: https://acpica.org/
50.ta 96.ta
51.nf 97.nf
52/dev/mem 98/dev/mem
99/sys/firmware/acpi/tables/*
53/sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic/* 100/sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic/*
101/sys/firmware/efi/systab
54.fi 102.fi
55 103
56.PP
57.SH AUTHOR 104.SH AUTHOR
58.nf 105.TP
59Written by Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> 106Original by:
107 Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
108.TP
109Written by:
110 Chao Guan <chao.guan@intel.com>
111.TP
112Updated by:
113 Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
114 Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
115
116.SH SEE ALSO
117\&\fIacpixtract\fR\|(8), \fIiasl\fR\|(8).
118
119.SH COPYRIGHT
120COPYRIGHT (c) 2013, Intel Corporation.