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Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/acpi/acpidump/acpidump.8')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/acpi/acpidump/acpidump.8 b/usr.sbin/acpi/acpidump/acpidump.8 index e825ab191e17..ecb0a7e1f94d 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/acpi/acpidump/acpidump.8 +++ b/usr.sbin/acpi/acpidump/acpidump.8 @@ -47,7 +47,8 @@ .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm -command analyzes ACPI tables in physical memory and dumps them to standard output. +utility analyzes ACPI tables in physical memory and dumps them to +standard output. In addition, .Nm can disassemble AML @@ -60,8 +61,9 @@ Differentiated System Description Table), that includes information used on the kernel side such as detailed information about PnP hardware, procedures for controlling power management support and so on. +The .Nm -can extract the DSDT data block from physical memory and store it into +utility can extract the DSDT data block from physical memory and store it into a DSDT data file, and also can generate an output in ASL from a given DSDT data file. .Pp @@ -87,8 +89,9 @@ called SDTs and their header has a common format which consists of items such as Signature, Length, Revision, Checksum, OEMID, OEM Table ID, OEM Revision, Creator ID and Creator Revision. +The .Nm -dumps contents of these SDTs. +utility dumps contents of these SDTs. For further information about formats of each table, see chapter 5: .Dq ACPI Software Programming Model @@ -180,5 +183,5 @@ and .Sh HISTORY The .Nm -command appeared in +utility appeared in .Fx 5.0 . |