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Dd April 10, 2010
Os
Dt IASL 8
Sh NAME
Nm iasl
Nd Intel ASL compiler and disassembler
Tn Pq iASL
Sh SYNOPSIS
Nm
Op Ar options
Ao Ar input file Ac
Sh DESCRIPTION
The
Nm
is a fully-featured compiler for the
Tn ACPI
Source Language
Tn Pq ASL .
It translates
Tn ASL
to
Tn ACPI
Machine Language
Tn Pq AML ,
but
Nm
can also act as a disassembler, translating
Tn AML
to
Tn ASL .
Sh OPTIONS
Ss Global
Bl -tag -width "w 1 | 2 | 3 " -offset 4n -compact
It Fl @ Ar file
Specify command file.
It Fl I Ar dir
Specify additional include directory.
El
Ss General Output
Bl -tag -width "w 1 | 2 | 3 " -offset 4n -compact
It Fl p Ar prefix
Specify a path or filename
Ar prefix
for all output files.
It Fl va
Disable all errors and warnings in the summary.
It Fl vi
Use less verbose errors and warnings.
It Fl vo
Enable optimization comments.
It Fl vr
Disable remarks.
It Fl vs
Disable signon.
It Fl w Ar 1 | 2 | 3
Set warning reporting level.
El
Ss AML Output Files
Bl -tag -width "w 1 | 2 | 3 " -offset 4n -compact
It Fl s Ar a | c
Create
Tn AML
in assembler
Pq Pa *.asm
or C
Pq Pa *.c
source file.
It Fl i Ar a | c
Create assembler
Pq Pa *.inc
or C
Pq Pa *.h
include file.
It Fl t Ar a | c
Create AML in assembler or C hex table
Pq Pa *.hex .
El
Ss AML Code Generation
Bl -tag -width "w 1 | 2 | 3 " -offset 4n -compact
It Fl oa
Disable all optimizations (compatibility mode).
It Fl of
Disable constant folding.
It Fl oi
Disable integer optimization to operation codes.
It Fl on
Disable named reference string optimization.
It Fl r Ar revision
Override table header
Ar revision
(1-255).
El
Ss Listings
Bl -tag -width "w 1 | 2 | 3 " -offset 4n -compact
It Fl l
Create mixed,
Tn ASL
and
Tn AML ,
listing file
Pq Pa *.lst .
It Fl ln
Create namespace file
Pq Pa *.nsp .
It Fl ls
Create combined source file
Pq Pa *.src .
El
Ss AML Disassembler
Bl -tag -width "w 1 | 2 | 3 " -offset 4n -compact
It Fl d Ar file
Disassemble binary
Tn ACPI
table to a
Ar file
Pq Pa *.dsl .
It Fl dc Ar file
Disassemble
Tn AML
and immediately compile it.
It Fl e Ar f1 , f2
Include
Tn ACPI
table(s) for external symbol resolution.
It Fl 2
Emit
Tn ACPI 2.0
compatible
Tn ASL
code.
It Fl g
Get
Tn ACPI
tables and write to files
Pq Pa *.dat .
El
Ss Help
Bl -tag -width "w 1 | 2 | 3 " -offset 4n -compact
It Fl h
Display additional help and compiler debug options.
It Fl hc
Display operators allowed in constant expressions.
It Fl hr
Display
Tn ACPI
reserved method names.
El
Sh SEE ALSO
Xr acpi 4 ,
Xr acpidump 8 ,
Xr amldb 8
Rs
%A Intel Corporation
%T iASL Compiler/Disassembler User Reference
%N Revision 2.00
%D September 18, 2009
%U http://www.acpica.org/download/aslcompiler.pdf
Re
Sh HISTORY
The
Nm
compiler/disassembler is part of the Intel
Tn ACPI
Component Architecture
Tn Pq ACPICA .
It first appeared in
Nx 6.0 .
Sh AUTHORS
An -nosplit
Among Intel engineers,
An Robert Moore Aq Mt [email protected]
was the chief architect behind
Nm .
This manual page was written for
Nx
by
An Jukka Ruohonen Aq Mt [email protected] .