.\" $NetBSD: amldb.8,v 1.8 2021/08/17 22:00:33 andvar Exp $ .\" ACPI (ACPI Package) .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2000 Takanori Watanabe .\" Copyright (c) 2000 Mitsuru IWASAKI .\" Copyright (c) 2000 Yasuo YOKOYAMA .\" Copyright (c) 2000 Norihiro KUMAGAI .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions .\" are met: .\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. .\" 2. 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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE .\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL .\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS .\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) .\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT .\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" $FreeBSD: src/usr.sbin/acpi/amldb/amldb.8,v 1.10 2002/08/13 16:07:26 ru Exp $ .\" .Dd August 31, 2000 .Dt AMLDB 8 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm amldb .Nd executing and debugging AML interpreter (with DSDT files) .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Op Fl dhst .Ar dsdt_file ... .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm utility parses the DSDT (Differentiated System Description Table) files, which usually are acquired from ACPI BIOS, and executes the sequence of ACPI Control Methods described in AML (ACPI Machine Language) with its AML interpreter. The .Nm utility also has a simple ACPI virtual machine. During execution of the Control Methods each access to the region, such as SystemMemory, SystemIO, PCI_Config, does not affect the real hardware but only the virtual machine. Because the sequence of virtual accesses is maintained in user space, AML interpreter developers need not worry about any effect on hardware when they analyze DSDT data files. They can develop and debug the interpreter, even if the machine has no ACPI BIOS. .Pp The developer will need to acquire a DSDT data file from any machine with ACPI BIOS through .Xr acpidump 8 . The DSDT is a table, a part of the whole ACPI memory table located in somewhere in the BIOS area .Pq Li 0xa0000 \- 0x100000 . It includes such information as the detailed hardware information for PnP, and the set of procedures which perform power management from the OS. The information is stored in AML format. .Pp The AML interpreter can execute any of the Control Methods specified by users. When executed, it interprets the byte sequence in the Control Method of DSDT, and disassembles the opcodes that it recognizes into ASL (ACPI Source Language) format to be displayed. .Pp If it encounters one of more accesses to the region such as SystemMemory in executing the Control Methods, its ACPI Virtual Machine simulates the input/output operations to the resources in the region. In writing to a certain region, the ACPI Virtual Machine prepares a piece of memory corresponding to its address, if necessary, and holds the specified value in the memory as the .Em region contents . In reading from a certain region, it fetches the value in the memory .Pq Em region contents , prompts with it as the following: .Bd -literal -offset indent DEBUG[read(0, 0x100b6813)&mask:0x1](default: 0x1 / 1) >> .Ed .Pp for users to have the opportunity to modify it, and hands it to the AML interpreter. In case that there is no corresponding region in the AML Virtual Machine, the value zero is handed. .Pp The interpreter continues to maintain all of the .Em region contents until .Nm terminates. You can specify their initial values with the file .Pa region.ini in the current directory. If it is executed with .Fl d option, it dumps the final status of all of its .Em region contents to the file .Pa region.dmp when it terminates. Each line of there files consists of the following fields, separated by tabs; region type, address, and value. Region types are specified as follows; .Bl -tag -width "Value" -compact -offset indent .It Sy Value .Sy Region type .It 0 SystemMemory .It 1 SystemIO .It 2 PCI_Config .It 3 EmbeddedControl .It 4 SMBus .El .Pp Interactive commands are described below: .Bl -tag -width indent .It Cm s .Em Single step : Performs single-step execution of the current Control Method. If the next instruction is an invocation of another Control Method, the step execution will continue in the following Control Method. .It Cm n .Em Step program : Performs single-step execution of the current Control Method. Even if the next instruction is an invocation of another Control Method, the step execution will not continue. .It Cm c .Em Continue program being debugged : Resumes execution of the AML interpreter. Because the current .Nm has no way of breakpoint, this command might not so much useful. .It Cm q .Em Quit method execution : Terminates execution of the current Control Method. If .Nm is not in execution, this command causes to input the next DSDT data file. If there are no next DSDT data files, it terminates .Nm itself. .It Cm t .Em Show local name space tree and variables : Displays the structure of the ACPI namespace tree. If .Nm is in execution, this command displays the structure that relates to the objects, arguments, and local variables below the scope of the current Control Method. .It Cm i .Em Toggle region input prompt : Switches whether the prompt for modifying the value read from the .Em region contents be showed or not. Default is On. .It Cm o .Em Toggle region output prompt : Switches whether the prompt for modifying the value to be written to the region contents will be shown or not. The default is Off. .It Cm m .Em Show memory management statistics : Displays the current statistics of the memory management system on the AML interpreter. .It Cm r Ar method .Em Run specified method : Executes the specified Control Method. If it requires one or more arguments, a prompt such as the following appears; .Bd -literal Method: Arg 1 From 0x280626ce To 0x28062775 Enter argument values (ex. number 1 / string foo). 'q' to quit. Arg0 ? .Ed .Pp For each argument, a pair of type string and value delimited by one or more spaces can be entered. Now only .Ic number and .Ic string can be specified as the type string. In the current implementation, only the first character of the type string, such as .Ic n or .Ic s , is identified. For example, we can enter as follows: .Bd -literal Arg0 ? n 1 .Ed .Pp .It Cm f Ar string .Em Find named objects from namespace : Lists the named objects that includes the specified string as the terminate elements searching from the ACPI namespace. For the namespace is expressed as the sequence of four-character elements, appropriate number of additional underscore .Pq Ql _ characters are necessary for specifying objects which have less than four character string. Unless additional underscores specified, matching occurs as the beginning of word with the specified number of characters. .It Cm h .Em Show help message : Displays the command summary of .Nm . .El .Sh OPTIONS Exactly one of the following options must be specified. Otherwise, .Nm shows its usage and terminates. .Bl -tag -width indent .It Fl d Dump the final status of all of the .Em region contents in the ACPI Virtual Machine to the file .Pa region.dmp . .It Fl h Terminate with the usage of this command. .It Fl s Display the statistics of the memory management system on the AML interpreter when .Nm terminates. .It Fl t Display the tree structure of ACPI namespace after the DSDT data file is read. .El .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width region.ini -compact .It Pa region.ini .It Pa region.dmp .El .Sh EXAMPLES The following is an example including, invoking the .Nm , searching .Li _PRS (Possible Resource Settings) objects, and executing the .Li _PTS (Prepare To Sleep) Control Method by the AML interpreter. .Bd -literal -offset indent % amldb p2b.dsdt.dat Loading p2b.dsdt.dat...done AML>f _PRS \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.PS2M._PRS. \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.IRDA._PRS. \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.UAR2._PRS. \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.UAR1._PRS. \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.ECP_._PRS. \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LPT_._PRS. \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.FDC0._PRS. \\_SB_.LNKD._PRS. \\_SB_.LNKC._PRS. \\_SB_.LNKB._PRS. \\_SB_.LNKA._PRS. AML>r _PTS Method: Arg 1 From 0x2805f0a3 To 0x2805f0db Enter argument values (ex. number 1 / string foo). 'q' to quit. Arg0 ? n 5 ==== Running _PTS. ==== AML>s [\\_PTS. START] If(LNot(LEqual(Arg0, 0x5))) AML> If(LEqual(Arg0, 0x1)) AML> If(LEqual(Arg0, 0x2)) AML> Store(One, TO12) [aml_region_write(1, 1, 0x1, 0xe42c, 0x18, 0x1)] amldb: region.ini: No such file or directory [1:0x00@0xe42f]->[1:0x01@0xe42f] [write(1, 0x1, 0xe42f)] [aml_region_read(1, 1, 0xe42c, 0x18, 0x1)] [1:0x01@0xe42f] DEBUG[read(1, 0xe42f)&mask:0x1](default: 0x1 / 1) >> [read(1, 0xe42f)->0x1] AML> Or(Arg0, 0xf0, Local2)[Copy number 0xf5] AML>t _PTS Method: Arg 1 From 0x2805f0a3 To 0x2805f0db Arg0 Num:0x5 Local2 Num:0xf5 AML>s Store(Local2, DBG1) [aml_region_write(1, 1, 0xf5, 0x80, 0x0, 0x8)] [1:0x00@0x80]->[1:0xf5@0x80] [write(1, 0xf5, 0x80)] [aml_region_read(1, 1, 0x80, 0x0, 0x8)] [1:0xf5@0x80] DEBUG[read(1, 0x80)&mask:0xf5](default: 0xf5 / 245) >> [read(1, 0x80)->0xf5] AML> [\\_PTS. END] _PTS Method: Arg 1 From 0x2805f0a3 To 0x2805f0db NO object ==== _PTS finished. ==== AML>q % .Ed .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr acpi 4 , .\" .Xr acpiconf 8 , .Xr acpidump 8 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm utility appeared in .Fx 5.0 . .Sh AUTHORS .An Takanori Watanabe Aq Mt takawata@FreeBSD.org .An Mitsuru IWASAKI Aq Mt iwasaki@FreeBSD.org .An Yasuo YOKOYAMA Aq Mt yokoyama@jp.FreeBSD.org .Pp Some contributions made by .An Chitoshi Ohsawa Aq Mt ohsawa@catv1.ccn-net.ne.jp , .An Takayasu IWANASHI Aq Mt takayasu@wendy.a.perfect-liberty.or.jp , .An Norihiro KUMAGAI Aq Mt kumagai@home.com , .An Kenneth Ingham Aq Mt ingham@I-pi.com , and .An Michael Lucas Aq Mt mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org . .Sh BUGS The ACPI virtual machine does not completely simulate the behavior of a machine with an ACPI BIOS. In the current implementation, the ACPI virtual machine only reads or writes the stored values by emulating access to regions such as SystemMemory. .Pp Because the AML interpreter interprets and disassembles simultaneously, it is impossible to implement such features as setting breakpoints with the specified line number in ASL. Setting breakpoints at certain Control Methods, which is not very difficult, has not yet implemented because nobody has ever needed it.