1.\"- 2.\" Copyright (c) 2003 Nate Lawson 3.\" All rights reserved. 4.\" 5.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 6.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 7.\" are met: 8.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 9.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer 10.\" in this position and unchanged. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products 15.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission. 16.\" 17.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 18.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES 19.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. 20.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 21.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT 22.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, 23.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY 24.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT 25.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF 26.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 27.\" 28.\" $FreeBSD$ 29.\" 30.Dd August 7, 2003 31.Dt ACPIDB 8 32.Os 33.Sh NAME 34.Nm acpidb 35.Nd ACPI DSDT debugger 36.Sh SYNOPSIS 37.Nm 38.Ar input-file 39.Sh DESCRIPTION 40The 41.Nm 42utility is a debugger for the ACPI DSDT. 43It can parse and execute various 44AML methods and display the result. 45.Sh COMMANDS 46.Ss General-Purpose Commands 47.Bl -tag -width indent 48.It Ic Allocations 49Display list of current memory allocations 50.It Ic Dump Ar Address | Namepath Op Cm Byte | Word | Dword | Qword 51Display ACPI objects or memory 52.It Ic EnableAcpi 53Enable ACPI (hardware) mode 54.It Ic Help 55Show various help screens 56.It Ic History 57Display command history buffer 58.It Ic Level Ar DebugLevel Op Cm console 59Get/Set debug level for file or console 60.It Ic Locks 61Current status of internal mutexes 62.It Ic Quit No or Ic Exit 63Exit the debugger 64.It Ic Stats Op Cm Allocations | Memory | Misc | Objects | Tables 65Display namespace and memory statistics 66.It Ic Tables 67Display info about loaded ACPI tables 68.It Ic Unload Ar TableSig Op Ar Instance 69Unload an ACPI table 70.It Ic !\& Ar CommandNumber 71Execute command from history buffer 72.It Ic !! 73Execute last command again 74.El 75.Ss Namespace Access Commands 76.Bl -tag -width indent 77.It Ic Event Cm F | G Ar Value 78Generate AcpiEvent (Fixed/GPE) 79.It Ic Find Ar Name 80Find ACPI name(s) with wildcards 81.Ql ( ?\& 82is wildcard) 83.It Ic Method 84Display list of loaded control methods 85.It Ic Namespace Oo Ar Addr | Path Oc Op Ar Depth 86Display loaded namespace tree/subtree 87.It Ic Notify Ar NamePath Value 88Send a notification 89.It Ic Objects Ar ObjectType 90Display all objects of the given type 91.It Ic Owner Ar OwnerId Op Ar Depth 92Display loaded namespace by object owner 93.It Ic Prefix Op Ar NamePath 94Set or Get current execution prefix 95.It Ic References Ar Addr 96Find all references to object at addr 97.It Ic Resources 98Get and display resources 99.It Ic Terminate 100Delete namespace and all internal objects 101.It Ic Thread Ar Threads Loops NamePath 102Spawn threads to execute method(s) 103.El 104.Ss Control Method Execution Commands 105.Bl -tag -width indent 106.It Ic Arguments 107.Pq Ic Args 108Display method arguments 109.It Ic Breakpoint Ar AmlOffset 110Set an AML execution breakpoint 111.It Ic Call 112Run to next control method invocation 113.It Ic Debug Ar Namepath Op Ar Arguments 114Single Step a control method 115.It Ic Execute Ar Namepath Op Arguments 116Execute control method 117.It Ic Go 118Allow method to run to completion 119.It Ic Information 120Display info about the current method 121.It Ic Into 122Step into (not over) a method call 123.It Ic List Op OpcodeCount 124Display method ASL statements 125.It Ic Locals 126Display method local variables 127.It Ic Results 128Display method result stack 129.It Ic Set Cm A | L Ar # Value 130Set method data (Arguments/Locals) 131.It Ic Stop 132Terminate control method 133.It Ic Tree 134Display control method calling tree 135.It Ic <Enter> 136Single step next AML opcode (over calls) 137.El 138.Ss File I/O Commands 139.Bl -tag -width indent 140.It Ic Close 141Close debug output file 142.It Ic Open Ar Filename 143Open a file for debug output 144.It Ic Load Ar Filename 145Load ACPI table from a file 146.El 147.Sh SEE ALSO 148.Xr acpi 4 , 149.Xr acpidump 8 , 150.Xr iasl 8 151.Sh HISTORY 152The 153.Nm 154utility first appeared in the 155.Nm acpicatools 156port. 157It was imported for 158.Fx 5.2 . 159.Sh AUTHORS 160.An -nosplit 161The 162.Nm 163utility was written by 164.An Mitsuru Iwasaki Aq iwasaki@FreeBSD.org 165and uses Intel ACPI-CA for the backend. 166This manual page was written by 167.An Nate Lawson . 168