Ectool

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Documentation is now handled by the same processes we use for code: Add something to the Documentation/ directory in the coreboot repo, and it will be rendered to https://doc.coreboot.org/. Contributions welcome!

ectool is a small utility that dumps the RAM of a laptop's Embedded/Environmental Controller (EC).

It expects an EC as described in the ACPI specification. Only ACPI-compliant ECs will be detected.

Installation

Manual installation

$ git clone http://review.coreboot.org/coreboot.git
$ cd coreboot/util/ectool
$ make
$ sudo make install

You can browse the ectool source code using the web interface.

Usage

$ ectool

Please see ectool -h for information on various other options.


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