Ectool

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

ectool expects an EC as described in the ACPI specification. Only ACPI-compliant EC's will be detected.

Installation

Manual installation

$ svn co svn://coreboot.org/coreboot/trunk/util/ectool
$ cd ectool
$ make
$ sudo make install

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

Usage

$ ectool

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

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