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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: acpidump.8,v 1.8 2008/06/04 17:23:24 kettenis Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: acpidump.8,v 1.9 2008/10/30 22:08:57 sobrado Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1999 Doug Rabson <dfr@FreeBSD.org>
.\" Copyright (c) 2000 Mitsuru IWASAKI <iwasaki@FreeBSD.org>
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD: src/usr.sbin/acpi/acpidump/acpidump.8,v 1.9 2001/09/05 19:21:25 dd Exp $
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: June 4 2008 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: October 30 2008 $
.Dt ACPIDUMP 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -61,6 +61,26 @@ can extract a DSDT data block from physical memory and store it into
a DSDT data file, and can also generate an output in ASL
from a given DSDT data file.
.Pp
+The options are as follows:
+.Bl -tag -width indent
+.It Fl f Ar dsdt_file_for_input
+Interpret AML data in DSDT from a file specified in
+.Ar dsdt_file_for_input
+and dumps them in ASL to standard output.
+.It Fl o Ar prefix_for_output
+Store ACPI tables from physical memory into files specified by
+.Ar prefix_for_output .
+The files generated will
+be of the form <prefix>.<sig>.<id>.
+.Dq sig
+is the signature of the ACPI Table;
+.Dq id
+is unique for each table.
+.Pp
+The following are common table signatures (there may be others):
+RSDP, FACP, DSDT, SSDT, HPET, MCFG, SPMI, APIC, SPCR, SRAT, XSDT.
+.El
+.Pp
When
.Nm
is invoked with no options, it will search ACPI tables from physical
@@ -106,27 +126,6 @@ When
.Nm
outputs DSDT, it disassembles the AML data and
translates them into ASL.
-.Sh OPTIONS
-The following options are supported by
-.Nm :
-.Bl -tag -width indent
-.It Fl f Ar dsdt_file_for_input
-Interpret AML data in DSDT from a file specified in
-.Ar dsdt_file_for_input
-and dumps them in ASL to standard output.
-.It Fl o Ar prefix_for_output
-Store ACPI tables from physical memory into files specified by
-.Ar prefix_for_output .
-The files generated will
-be of the form <prefix>.<sig>.<id>.
-.Dq sig
-is the signature of the ACPI Table;
-.Dq id
-is unique for each table.
-.Pp
-The following are common table signatures (there may be others):
-RSDP, FACP, DSDT, SSDT, HPET, MCFG, SPMI, APIC, SPCR, SRAT, XSDT.
-.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /dev/mem
.It Pa /dev/mem
@@ -142,7 +141,6 @@ RSDP, FACP, DSDT, SSDT, HPET, MCFG, SPMI, APIC, SPCR, SRAT, XSDT.
.%A Microsoft
.%A Toshiba
.%R Revision 1.0b
-.%O http://www.teleport.com/~acpi/
.Re
.Sh HISTORY
The