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IASL(1) General Commands Manual IASL(1)

NAME

iasl - ACPI Source Language compiler/decompiler

SYNOPSIS

iasl [options] [input file]

DESCRIPTION

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

iasl is an ASL compiler and decompiler.

OPTIONS

General Output

Specify filename prefix for all output files (including .aml)
Less verbose errors and warnings for use with IDEs
Enable optimization comments
Disable remarks
Disable signon

AML Output Files

Create AML in assembler or C source file (*.asm or *.c)
Create assembler or C include file (*.inc or *.h)
Create AML in assembler or C hex table (*.hex)

AML Code Generation

Disable all optimizations (compatibility mode)
Disable constant folding
Disable integer optimization to Zero/One/Ones
Disable named reference string optimization
Override table header Revision (1-255)

Listings

Create mixed listing file (ASL source and AML) (*.lst)
Create namespace file (*.nsp)
Create combined source file (expanded includes) (*.src)

AML Disassembler

Disassemble AML to ASL source code file (*.dsl)
Disassemble AML and immediately compile it
(Obtain DSDT from current system if no input file)
Generate External() statements for unresolved symbols
Get ACPI tables and write to files (*.dat)

Miscellaneous

Verify source file is entirely ASCII text (0x00-0x7F)

Help

Additional help and compiler debug options
Display operators allowed in constant expressions
Display ACPI reserved method names

AUTHOR

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

This manual page was written by Mattia Dongili <malattia@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

October 14, 2005