On 2012-06-28 09:35:41 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Package: acpidump
> Version: 20100513-3
> Severity: minor
> 
> In the acpidump(1) man page:
> 
>        Dump and extract all ACPI tables:
>                acpidump -o DSDT.dat
>                acpixtract -a
> 
> but
> 
> $ acpixtract -a
> Usage: acpixtract [option] <InputFile>
> 
> Extract binary ACPI tables from text acpidump output
> Default invocation extracts all DSDTs and SSDTs
> Version 20060324
> 
> Options:
>  -a                    Extract all tables, not just DSDT/SSDT
>  -l                    List table summaries, do not extract
>  -s<Signature>         Extract all tables named <Signature>

Also, it should be said that acpixtract writes *.dat files,
so that "acpixtract -a DSDT.dat" fails strangely. It took some
time before I found what was wrong. An example could be:

  acpidump -o acpidump.out
  acpixtract -a acpidump.out

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