This patch updates man file of acpidump. Cc: Chao Guan <guanchao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Bob Moore <robert.moore@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@xxxxxxxxx> --- tools/power/acpi/man/acpidump.8 | 85 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 73 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/power/acpi/man/acpidump.8 b/tools/power/acpi/man/acpidump.8 index adfa991..38f095d 100644 --- a/tools/power/acpi/man/acpidump.8 +++ b/tools/power/acpi/man/acpidump.8 @@ -1,18 +1,64 @@ .TH ACPIDUMP 8 .SH NAME -acpidump \- Dump system's ACPI tables to an ASCII file. +acpidump \- dump a system's ACPI tables to an ASCII file + .SH SYNOPSIS -.ft B -.B acpidump > acpidump.out +.B acpidump +.RI [ options ] +.br + .SH DESCRIPTION -\fBacpidump \fP dumps the systems ACPI tables to an ASCII file -appropriate for attaching to a bug report. +.B acpidump +dumps the systems ACPI tables to an ASCII file appropriate for +attaching to a bug report. Subsequently, they can be processed by utilities in the ACPICA package. -.SS Options -no options worth worrying about. -.PP -.SH EXAMPLE + +.SH OPTIONS +acpidump options are as follow: +.TP +.B Options +.TP +.B \-b +Dump tables to binary files +.TP +.B \-c +Dump customized tables +.TP +.B \-h \-? +This help message +.TP +.B \-o <File> +Redirect output to file +.TP +.B \-r <Address> +Dump tables from specified RSDP +.TP +.B \-s +Print table summaries only +.TP +.B \-v +Display version information +.TP +.B \-z +Verbose mode +.TP +.B Table Options +.TP +.B \-a <Address> +Get table via a physical address +.TP +.B \-f <BinaryFile> +Get table via a binary file +.TP +.B \-n <Signature> +Get table via a name/signature +.TP +Invocation without parameters dumps all available tables +.TP +Multiple mixed instances of -a, -f, and -n are supported + +.SH EXAMPLES .nf # acpidump > acpidump.out @@ -50,10 +96,25 @@ ACPICA: https://acpica.org/ .ta .nf /dev/mem +/sys/firmware/acpi/tables/* /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic/* +/sys/firmware/efi/systab .fi -.PP .SH AUTHOR -.nf -Written by Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx> +.TP +Original by: + Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx> +.TP +Written by: + Chao Guan <chao.guan@xxxxxxxxx> +.TP +Updated by: + Bob Moore <robert.moore@xxxxxxxxx> + Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@xxxxxxxxx> + +.SH SEE ALSO +\&\fIacpixtract\fR\|(8), \fIiasl\fR\|(8). + +.SH COPYRIGHT +COPYRIGHT (c) 2013, Intel Corporation. -- 1.7.10 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
