acpiexec (1)

Leading comments

First parameter, NAME, should be all caps
Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection
other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1)

(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man1/acpiexec.1".)

NAME

acpiexec - ACPI AML execution and debug utility

SYNOPSIS

acpiexec [<option>...] <aml-file> ...

DESCRIPTION

This manual page briefly documents the acpiexec command. The option list is taken from the acpiexec interactive help.

acpiexec provides a simulated execution environment for AML code so that it can be more easily tested and debugged.

Much more detailed documentation may be found at www.acpica.org/documentation

OPTIONS

-?

Display the help message

-b command-line

Batch mode command line execution (cmd1;cmd2;...)

-M [<method>]

Batch mode method execution (Default: MAIN)

-da

Disable method abort on error

-di

Disable execution of _STA/_INI methods during init

-do

Disable Operation Region address simulation

-dr

Disable repair of method return values

-dt

Disable allocation tracking (performance)

-ef

Enable display of final memory statistics

-ei

Enable additional tests for ACPICA interfaces

-em

Enable interpreter Serialized mode

-es

Enable interpreter Slack mode

-et

Enable debug semaphore timeour

-f <value>

Operation Region initialization fill value

-r

Use hardware-reduced FADT V5

-vi

Verbose initialization output

-vr

Verbose region handler output

-x <debug-level>

Debug output level

AUTHOR

acpiexec was written by Robert Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>.

This manual page was written by Al Stone <ahs3@redhat.com> for the Fedora project (but may be used by others).