Merge branch 'acpidump' into acpica

tools/power/acpi/Makefile

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+PROG= acpidump
+SRCS=	acpidump.c
+KERNEL_INCLUDE := ../../../include
+CFLAGS += -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Os -s -D_LINUX -DDEFINE_ALTERNATE_TYPES -I$(KERNEL_INCLUDE) 
+
+all: acpidump
+$(PROG) : $(SRCS)
+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(SRCS) -o $(PROG)
+
+CLEANFILES= $(PROG)
+
+clean : 
+	rm -f $(CLEANFILES) $(patsubst %.c,%.o, $(SRCS)) *~
+
+install :
+	install acpidump /usr/bin/acpidump
+	install acpidump.8 /usr/share/man/man8
+

tools/power/acpi/acpidump.8

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+.TH ACPIDUMP 8
+.SH NAME
+acpidump \- Dump system's ACPI tables to an ASCII file.
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.ft B
+.B acpidump > acpidump.out
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+\fBacpidump \fP 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
+
+.nf
+# acpidump > acpidump.out
+
+$ acpixtract -a acpidump.out
+        Acpi table [DSDT] -  15974 bytes written to DSDT.dat
+        Acpi table [FACS] -     64 bytes written to FACS.dat
+        Acpi table [FACP] -    116 bytes written to FACP.dat
+        Acpi table [APIC] -    120 bytes written to APIC.dat
+        Acpi table [MCFG] -     60 bytes written to MCFG.dat
+        Acpi table [SSDT] -    444 bytes written to SSDT1.dat
+        Acpi table [SSDT] -    439 bytes written to SSDT2.dat
+        Acpi table [SSDT] -    439 bytes written to SSDT3.dat
+        Acpi table [SSDT] -    439 bytes written to SSDT4.dat
+        Acpi table [SSDT] -    439 bytes written to SSDT5.dat
+        Acpi table [RSDT] -     76 bytes written to RSDT.dat
+        Acpi table [RSDP] -     20 bytes written to RSDP.dat
+
+$ iasl -d *.dat
+...
+.fi
+creates *.dsl, a human readable form which can be edited
+and compiled using iasl.
+
+
+.SH NOTES
+
+.B "acpidump "
+must be run as root.
+
+.SH REFERENCES
+ACPICA: https://acpica.org/
+
+.SH FILES
+.ta
+.nf
+/dev/mem
+/sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic/*
+.fi
+
+.PP
+.SH AUTHOR
+.nf
+Written by Len Brown <[email protected]>