ACPICA: acpidump: Update man page.

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 .TH ACPIDUMP 8
.SH NAME .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 .SH SYNOPSIS
.ft B .B acpidump
.B acpidump > acpidump.out .RI [ options ]
.br
.SH DESCRIPTION .SH DESCRIPTION
\fBacpidump \fP dumps the systems ACPI tables to an ASCII file .B acpidump
appropriate for attaching to a bug report. 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. Subsequently, they can be processed by utilities in the ACPICA package.
.SS Options
no options worth worrying about. .SH OPTIONS
.PP acpidump options are as follow:
.SH EXAMPLE .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 .nf
# acpidump > acpidump.out # acpidump > acpidump.out
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.ta .ta
.nf .nf
/dev/mem /dev/mem
/sys/firmware/acpi/tables/*
/sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic/* /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic/*
/sys/firmware/efi/systab
.fi .fi
.PP
.SH AUTHOR .SH AUTHOR
.nf .TP
Written by Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> 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.