1ACPIDUMP(1) General Commands Manual ACPIDUMP(1)
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6 acpidump - ACPI table dump utility
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9 acpidump [<option>...]
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13 This manual page briefly documents the acpidump command. The option
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16 The acpidump command extracts the ACPI tables currently in use from the
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20 Invocation of acpidump without parameters will dump all available ACPI
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35 Redirect output to a file. This file can be used later by
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49 Get a table from a physical address (must be superuser and you
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59 Get a table via it's name or signature (e.g., MADT or SSDT).
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67 acpidump was written by Robert Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> and Chao
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70 This manual page was written by Al Stone <ahs3@redhat.com> for the
71 Fedora project (but may be used by others).
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75 July 24, 2013 ACPIDUMP(1)