ACPI Tables
Surface RT ACPI Tables.
ACPI Tables
APIC - Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
BGRT - Boot Graphics Resource Table
DBG2 - Debug Port Table 2
CSRT - Core System Resource Table
DSDT - Differentiated System Description Table
FACP - Fixed ACPI Description Table
FPDT - Firmware Performance Data Table
MSDM - Microsoft Data Management table
RSDP - Root System Description Pointer
SSDT - Secondary System Description Table
TPM2 - Trusted Platform Module 2.0
WDSA - Windows Specific Table. Contains tCover information
XSDT - Extended System Description Table Fields
Get ACPI-Tables from Surface RT
You need to be able to run unsigned EFI apps. get ShellBinPkg.zip from https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/releases/tag/edk2-stable201911 And use the startup script below. Dumped tables should be in the dump folder
Decompile ACPI-Tables
To decompile ACPI on Linux you would normally use IASL. But all Tables are compiled with the Microsoft ASL compiler. Since MS_ASL isn't as strict as IASL, IASL detects some errors and won't decompile all tables.
IASL
MS ASL
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/bringup/microsoft-asl-compiler
You can't decompile RSDP0000.bin but it only contains 2 Pointers
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