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ACPI(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual ACPI(4) NAME acpi -- Advanced Configuration and Power Management support SYNOPSIS device acpi options ACPI_DEBUG DESCRIPTION The acpi driver provides support for the Intel/Microsoft/Compaq/Toshiba ACPI standard. This support includes platform hardware discovery (super- seding the PnP and PCI BIOS), as well as power management (superseding APM) and other features. ACPI core support is provided by the ACPI CA reference implementation from Intel. Note that the acpi driver is automatically loaded by the loader(8), and should only be compiled into the kernel on platforms where ACPI is manda- tory. SYSCTLS The acpi driver is intended to provide power management without user in- tervention. Thus, some of these sysctls are controlled automatically by the power_profile rc(8) script, which can be configured via rc.conf(5). If values are specified manually, they may be overridden. hw.acpi.cpu.cx_usage Debugging information listing the percent of total usage for each sleep state. The values are reset when hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest is modified. hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest Lowest Cx state to use for idling the CPU. A scheduling algo- rithm will select states between C1 and this setting as system load dictates. To enable ACPI CPU idling control, machdep.cpu_idle_hlt must be set to 1. hw.acpi.cpu.cx_supported List of supported CPU idle states and their transition latency in microseconds. Each state has a type (e.g., C2). C1 is equiva- lent to the ia32 HLT instruction, C2 provides a deeper sleep with the same semantics, and C3 provides the deepest sleep but addi- tionally requires bus mastering to be disabled. States greater than C3 provide even more power savings with the same semantics as the C3 state. Deeper sleeps provide more power savings but increased transition latency when an interrupt occurs. TUNABLES Tunables can be set at the loader(8) prompt before booting the kernel or stored in /boot/loader.conf. acpi_dsdt_load Enables loading of a custom ACPI DSDT. acpi_dsdt_name Name of the DSDT table to load, if loading is enabled. debug.acpi.disabled Selectively disables portions of ACPI for debugging purposes. debug.acpi.max_threads Specify the number of task threads that are started on boot. Limiting this to 1 may help work around various BIOSes that can- not handle parallel requests. The default value is 3. debug.acpi.quirks Override any automatic quirks completely. hint.acpi.0.disabled Set this to 1 to disable all of ACPI. If ACPI has been disabled on your system due to a blacklist entry for your BIOS, you can set this to 0 to re-enable ACPI for testing. hw.acpi.ec.poll_timeout Delay in milliseconds to wait for the EC to respond. Try in- creasing this number if you get the error "AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE". hw.acpi.host_mem_start Override the assumed memory starting address for PCI host bridges. hw.acpi.pci.link.%d.%d.%d.irq Override the interrupt to use. hw.acpi.reset_video Enables calling the VESA reset BIOS vector on the resume path. Some graphic chips have problems such as LCD white-out after re- sume. Try setting this to 0 if this causes problems for you. hw.acpi.serialize_methods Allow override of whether methods execute in parallel or not. Enable this for serial behavior, which fixes "AE_ALREADY_EXISTS" errors for AML that really cannot handle parallel method execu- tion. It is off by default since this breaks recursive methods and some IBMs use such code. hw.acpi.verbose Turn on verbose debugging information about what ACPI is doing. DISABLING ACPI Since ACPI support on different platforms varies greatly, there are many debugging and tuning options available. For machines known not to work with acpi enabled, there is a BIOS black- list. Currently, the blacklist only controls whether acpi should be dis- abled or not. In the future, it will have more granularity to control features (the infrastructure for that is already there). To enable acpi (for debugging purposes, etc.) on machines that are on the blacklist, set the kernel environment variable hint.acpi.0.disabled to 0. Before trying this, consider updating your BIOS to a more recent version that may be compatible with ACPI. To disable the acpi driver completely, set the kernel environment vari- able hint.acpi.0.disabled to 1. Some i386 machines totally fail to operate with some or all of ACPI dis- abled. Other i386 machines fail with ACPI enabled. Disabling all or part of ACPI on non-i386 platforms (i.e., platforms where ACPI support is mandatory) may result in a non-functional system. The acpi driver comprises a set of drivers, which may be selectively dis- abled in case of problems. To disable a sub-driver, list it in the ker- nel environment variable debug.acpi.disabled. Multiple entries can be listed, separated by a space. ACPI sub-devices and features that can be disabled: all Disable all ACPI features and devices. acad (device) Supports AC adapter. bus (feature) Probes and attaches subdevices. Disabling will avoid scanning the ACPI namespace entirely. children (feature) Attaches standard ACPI sub-drivers and devices enumerated in the ACPI namespace. Disabling this has a sim- ilar effect to disabling "bus", except that the ACPI name- space will still be scanned. button (device) Supports ACPI button devices (typically power and sleep buttons). cmbat (device) Control-method batteries device. cpu (device) Supports CPU power-saving and speed-setting func- tions. ec (device) Supports the ACPI Embedded Controller interface, used to communicate with embedded platform controllers. isa (device) Supports an ISA bus bridge defined in the ACPI namespace, typically as a child of a PCI bus. lid (device) Supports an ACPI laptop lid switch, which typically puts a system to sleep. quirks (feature) Do not honor quirks. Quirks automatically disable ACPI functionality based on the XSDT table's OEM vendor name and revision date. pci (device) Supports Host to PCI bridges. pci_link (feature) Performs PCI interrupt routing. sysresource (device) Pseudo-devices containing resources which ACPI claims. thermal (device) Supports system cooling and heat management. timer (device) Implements a timecounter using the ACPI fixed-fre- quency timer. video (device) Supports acpi_video which may conflict with agp de- vice. It is also possible to avoid portions of the ACPI namespace which may be causing problems, by listing the full path of the root of the region to be avoided in the kernel environment variable debug.acpi.avoid. The ob- ject and all of its children will be ignored during the bus/children scan of the namespace. The ACPI CA code will still know about the avoided re- gion. DEBUGGING OUTPUT To enable debugging output, acpi must be compiled with options ACPI_DEBUG. Debugging output is separated between layers and levels, where a layer is a component of the ACPI subsystem, and a level is a par- ticular kind of debugging output. Both layers and levels are specified as a whitespace-separated list of tokens, with layers listed in debug.acpi.layer and levels in debug.acpi.level. The first set of layers is for ACPI-CA components, and the second is for FreeBSD drivers. The ACPI-CA layer descriptions include the prefix for the files they refer to. The supported layers are: ACPI_UTILITIES Utility ("ut") functions ACPI_HARDWARE Hardware access ("hw") ACPI_EVENTS Event and GPE ("ev") ACPI_TABLES Table access ("tb") ACPI_NAMESPACE Namespace evaluation ("ns") ACPI_PARSER AML parser ("ps") ACPI_DISPATCHER Internal representation of interpreter state ("ds") ACPI_EXECUTER Execute AML methods ("ex") ACPI_RESOURCES Resource parsing ("rs") ACPI_CA_DEBUGGER Debugger implementation ("db", "dm") ACPI_OS_SERVICES Usermode support routines ("os") ACPI_CA_DISASSEMBLER Disassembler implementation (unused) ACPI_ALL_COMPONENTS All the above ACPI-CA components ACPI_AC_ADAPTER AC adapter driver ACPI_BATTERY Control-method battery driver ACPI_BUS ACPI, ISA, and PCI bus drivers ACPI_BUTTON Power and sleep button driver ACPI_EC Embedded controller driver ACPI_FAN Fan driver ACPI_OEM Platform-specific driver for hotkeys, LED, etc. ACPI_POWER Power resource driver ACPI_PROCESSOR CPU driver ACPI_THERMAL Thermal zone driver ACPI_TIMER Timer driver ACPI_ALL_DRIVERS All the above FreeBSD ACPI drivers The supported levels are: ACPI_LV_ERROR Fatal error conditions ACPI_LV_WARN Warnings and potential problems ACPI_LV_INIT Initialization progress ACPI_LV_DEBUG_OBJECT Stores to objects ACPI_LV_INFO General information and progress ACPI_LV_ALL_EXCEPTIONS All the previous levels ACPI_LV_INIT_NAMES ACPI_LV_PARSE ACPI_LV_LOAD ACPI_LV_DISPATCH ACPI_LV_EXEC ACPI_LV_NAMES ACPI_LV_OPREGION ACPI_LV_BFIELD ACPI_LV_TABLES ACPI_LV_VALUES ACPI_LV_OBJECTS ACPI_LV_RESOURCES ACPI_LV_USER_REQUESTS ACPI_LV_PACKAGE ACPI_LV_VERBOSITY1 All the previous levels ACPI_LV_ALLOCATIONS ACPI_LV_FUNCTIONS ACPI_LV_OPTIMIZATIONS ACPI_LV_VERBOSITY2 ACPI_LV_ALL ACPI_LV_MUTEX ACPI_LV_THREADS ACPI_LV_IO ACPI_LV_INTERRUPTS ACPI_LV_VERBOSITY3 All the previous levels ACPI_LV_AML_DISASSEMBLE ACPI_LV_VERBOSE_INFO ACPI_LV_FULL_TABLES ACPI_LV_EVENTS ACPI_LV_VERBOSE All levels after "ACPI_LV_VERBOSITY3" Selection of the appropriate layer and level values is important to avoid massive amounts of debugging output. For example, the following configu- ration is a good way to gather initial information. It enables debug output for both ACPI-CA and the acpi driver, printing basic information about errors, warnings, and progress. debug.acpi.layer="ACPI_ALL_COMPONENTS ACPI_ALL_DRIVERS" debug.acpi.level="ACPI_LV_ALL_EXCEPTIONS" Debugging output by the ACPI CA subsystem is prefixed with the module name in lowercase, followed by a source line number. Output from the FreeBSD-local code follows the same format, but the module name is upper- cased. OVERRIDING YOUR BIOS BYTECODE ACPI interprets bytecode named AML (ACPI Machine Language) provided by the BIOS vendor as a memory image at boot time. Sometimes, the AML code contains a bug that does not appear when parsed by the Microsoft imple- mentation. FreeBSD provides a way to override it with your own AML code to work around or debug such problems. Note that all AML in your DSDT and any SSDT tables is overridden. In order to load your AML code, you must edit /boot/loader.conf and in- clude the following lines. acpi_dsdt_load="YES" acpi_dsdt_name="/boot/acpi_dsdt.aml" # You may change this name. In order to prepare your AML code, you will need the acpidump(8) and iasl(8) utilities and some ACPI knowledge. COMPATIBILITY ACPI is only found and supported on i386/ia32, ia64, and amd64. SEE ALSO kenv(1), acpi_thermal(4), device.hints(5), loader.conf(5), acpiconf(8), acpidump(8), config(8), iasl(8) Compaq Computer Corporation, Intel Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Phoenix Technologies Ltd., and Toshiba Corporation, Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Specification, August 25, 2003, http://acpi.info/spec.htm. AUTHORS The ACPI CA subsystem is developed and maintained by Intel Architecture Labs. The following people made notable contributions to the ACPI subsystem in FreeBSD: Michael Smith, Takanori Watanabe <takawata@jp.FreeBSD.org>, Mitsuru IWASAKI <iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org>, Munehiro Matsuda, Nate Lawson, the ACPI-jp mailing list at <acpi-jp@jp.FreeBSD.org>, and many other con- tributors. This manual page was written by Michael Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org>. BUGS If the acpi driver is loaded as a module when it is already linked as part of the kernel, odd things may happen. BSD February 13, 2005 BSD
NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | SYSCTLS | TUNABLES | DISABLING ACPI | DEBUGGING OUTPUT | OVERRIDING YOUR BIOS BYTECODE | COMPATIBILITY | SEE ALSO | AUTHORS | BUGS
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