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ACPICA: acpidump: Update man page.

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This patch updates man file of acpidump.

Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
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Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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.TH ACPIDUMP 8
.SH NAME
acpidump \- Dump system's ACPI tables to an ASCII file.
acpidump \- dump a system's ACPI tables to an ASCII file
.SH SYNOPSIS
.ft B
.B acpidump > acpidump.out
.B acpidump
.RI [ options ]
.br
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBacpidump \fP dumps the systems ACPI tables to an ASCII file
appropriate for attaching to a bug report.
.B acpidump
dumps the systems ACPI tables to an ASCII file appropriate for
attaching to a bug report.
Subsequently, they can be processed by utilities in the ACPICA package.
.SS Options
no options worth worrying about.
.PP
.SH EXAMPLE
.SH OPTIONS
acpidump options are as follow:
.TP
.B Options
.TP
.B \-b
Dump tables to binary files
.TP
.B \-c
Dump customized tables
.TP
.B \-h \-?
This help message
.TP
.B \-o <File>
Redirect output to file
.TP
.B \-r <Address>
Dump tables from specified RSDP
.TP
.B \-s
Print table summaries only
.TP
.B \-v
Display version information
.TP
.B \-z
Verbose mode
.TP
.B Table Options
.TP
.B \-a <Address>
Get table via a physical address
.TP
.B \-f <BinaryFile>
Get table via a binary file
.TP
.B \-n <Signature>
Get table via a name/signature
.TP
Invocation without parameters dumps all available tables
.TP
Multiple mixed instances of -a, -f, and -n are supported
.SH EXAMPLES
.nf
# acpidump > acpidump.out
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.ta
.nf
/dev/mem
/sys/firmware/acpi/tables/*
/sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic/*
/sys/firmware/efi/systab
.fi
.PP
.SH AUTHOR
.nf
Written by Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
.TP
Original by:
Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
.TP
Written by:
Chao Guan <chao.guan@intel.com>
.TP
Updated by:
Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
.SH SEE ALSO
\&\fIacpixtract\fR\|(8), \fIiasl\fR\|(8).
.SH COPYRIGHT
COPYRIGHT (c) 2013, Intel Corporation.