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28.Dd July 2, 2001
29.Dt ACPI 4
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm acpi
33.Nd Advanced Configuration and Power Management support
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.Cd "device acpi"
36.Pp
37.Cd "options ACPI_DEBUG"
38.Sh DESCRIPTION
39The
40.Nm
41driver provides support for the Intel/Microsoft/Compaq/Toshiba ACPI
42standard.
43This support includes platform hardware discovery (superseding the
44PnP and PCI BIOS), as well as power management (superseding APM) and
45other features.
46ACPI core support is provided by the ACPI CA reference implementation
47from Intel.
48.Pp
49Note that the
50.Nm
51driver is automatically loaded by the bootloader, and should not normally
52be compiled into the kernel.
53.Sh ENVIRONMENT
54This support is still experimental, and thus there are many debugging
55and tuning options which are managed via the kernel environment.
56Tunables can be set at the
57.Xr loader 8
58prompt before booting the kernel or stored in
59.Pa /boot/loader.conf .
60.Pp
61Debugging is separated between layers and levels, where a layer is
62a portion of the ACPI subsystem, and a level is a particular kind
63of debugging output.
64.Pp
65Both layers and levels are specified as a whitespace-separated list of
66tokens, with layers listed in
67.Va debug.acpi.layer
68and levels in
69.Va debug.acpi.level .
70The supported layers are:
71.Pp
72.Bl -item -offset indent -compact
73.It
74.Li ACPI_UTILITIES
75.It
76.Li ACPI_HARDWARE
77.It
78.Li ACPI_EVENTS
79.It
80.Li ACPI_TABLES
81.It
82.Li ACPI_NAMESPACE
83.It
84.Li ACPI_PARSER
85.It
86.Li ACPI_DISPATCHER
87.It
88.Li ACPI_EXECUTER
89.It
90.Li ACPI_RESOURCES
91.It
92.Li ACPI_CA_DEBUGGER
93.It
94.Li ACPI_OS_SERVICES
95.It
96.Li ACPI_CA_DISASSEMBLER
97.It
98.Li ACPI_ALL_COMPONENTS
99.It
100.Li ACPI_AC_ADAPTER
101.It
102.Li ACPI_BATTERY
103.It
104.Li ACPI_BUS
105.It
106.Li ACPI_BUTTON
107.It
108.Li ACPI_EC
109.It
110.Li ACPI_FAN
111.It
112.Li ACPI_POWER
113.It
114.Li ACPI_PROCESSOR
115.It
116.Li ACPI_THERMAL
117.It
118.Li ACPI_TIMER
119.It
120.Li ACPI_ALL_DRIVERS
121.El
122.Pp
123The supported levels are:
124.Pp
125.Bl -item -offset indent -compact
126.It
127.Li ACPI_LV_ERROR
128.It
129.Li ACPI_LV_WARN
130.It
131.Li ACPI_LV_INIT
132.It
133.Li ACPI_LV_DEBUG_OBJECT
134.It
135.Li ACPI_LV_INFO
136.It
137.Li ACPI_LV_ALL_EXCEPTIONS
138.It
139.Li ACPI_LV_INIT_NAMES
140.It
141.Li ACPI_LV_PARSE
142.It
143.Li ACPI_LV_LOAD
144.It
145.Li ACPI_LV_DISPATCH
146.It
147.Li ACPI_LV_EXEC
148.It
149.Li ACPI_LV_NAMES
150.It
151.Li ACPI_LV_OPREGION
152.It
153.Li ACPI_LV_BFIELD
154.It
155.Li ACPI_LV_TABLES
156.It
157.Li ACPI_LV_VALUES
158.It
159.Li ACPI_LV_OBJECTS
160.It
161.Li ACPI_LV_RESOURCES
162.It
163.Li ACPI_LV_USER_REQUESTS
164.It
165.Li ACPI_LV_PACKAGE
166.It
167.Li ACPI_LV_VERBOSITY1
168.It
169.Li ACPI_LV_ALLOCATIONS
170.It
171.Li ACPI_LV_FUNCTIONS
172.It
173.Li ACPI_LV_OPTIMIZATIONS
174.It
175.Li ACPI_LV_VERBOSITY2
176.It
177.Li ACPI_LV_ALL
178.It
179.Li ACPI_LV_MUTEX
180.It
181.Li ACPI_LV_THREADS
182.It
183.Li ACPI_LV_IO
184.It
185.Li ACPI_LV_INTERRUPTS
186.It
187.Li ACPI_LV_VERBOSITY3
188.It
189.Li ACPI_LV_AML_DISASSEMBLE
190.It
191.Li ACPI_LV_VERBOSE_INFO
192.It
193.Li ACPI_LV_FULL_TABLES
194.It
195.Li ACPI_LV_EVENTS
196.It
197.Li ACPI_LV_VERBOSE
198.El
199.Pp
200Selection of the appropriate layer and level values is important
201to avoid massive amounts of debugging output.
202Check the code to see which you need.
203.Pp
204Debugging output by the ACPI CA subsystem is prefixed with the
205module name in lowercase, followed by a source line number.
206Output from the
207.Fx Ns -local
208code follows the same format, but
209the module name is uppercased.
210.Pp
211To disable the
212.Nm
213driver completely, set the kernel environment variable
214.Va hint.acpi.0.disabled
215to 1.
216.Pp
217Some i386 machines totally fail to operate with some or all of ACPI disabled.
218Other i386 machines fail with ACPI enabled.
219Non-i386 platforms do not support operating systems which do not use ACPI.
220Disabling all or part of ACPI on non-i386 platforms may result in a
221non-functional system.
222.Pp
223The
224.Nm
225driver comprises a set of drivers, which may be selectively disabled
226in case of problems.
227To disable a sub-driver, list it in the kernel
228environment variable
229.Va debug.acpi.disabled .
230Multiple entries can be listed, separated by a space.
231.Pp
232ACPI sub-devices and features that can be disabled:
233.Bl -tag -width sysresource
234.It Li all
235Disable all ACPI features and devices.
236.It Li acad
237.Pq Vt device
238Supports AC adapter.
239.It Li bus
240.Pq Vt feature
241Probes and attaches subdevices.
242Disabling will avoid scanning the ACPI namespace entirely.
243.It Li children
244.Pq Vt feature
245Attaches standard ACPI sub-drivers and devices enumerated in the
246ACPI namespace.
247Disabling this has a similar effect to disabling
248.Dq Li bus ,
249except that the
250ACPI namespace will still be scanned.
251.It Li button
252.Pq Vt device
253Supports ACPI button devices (typically power and sleep buttons.)
254.It Li cmbat
255.Pq Vt device
256Control-method batteries device.
257.It Li cpu
258.Pq Vt device
259Supports CPU power-saving and speed-setting functions.
260.It Li ec
261.Pq Vt device
262Supports the ACPI Embedded Controller interface, used to communicate
263with embedded platform controllers.
264.It Li isa
265.Pq Vt device
266Supports an ISA bus bridge defined in the ACPI namespace,
267typically as a child of a PCI bus.
268.It Li lid
269.Pq Vt device
270Supports an ACPI laptop lid switch, which typically puts a
271system to sleep.
272.It Li quirks
273.Pq Vt feature
274Don't honor quirks.
275Quirks automatically disable ACPI functionality based on the XSDT table's
276OEM vendor name and revision date.
277.It Li pci
278.Pq Vt device
279Supports Host to PCI bridges.
280.It Li pci_link
281.Pq Vt feature
282Performs PCI interrupt routing.
283.It Li sysresource
284.Pq Vt device
285Pseudo-devices containing resources which ACPI claims.
286.It Li thermal
287.Pq Vt device
288Supports system cooling and heat management.
289.It Li timer
290.Pq Vt device
291Implements a timecounter using the ACPI fixed-frequency timer.
292.El
293.Pp
294It is also possible to avoid portions of the ACPI namespace which
295may be causing problems, by listing the full path of the root of
296the region to be avoided in the kernel environment variable
297.Va debug.acpi.avoid .
298The object and all of its children will be ignored during the
299bus/children scan of the namespace.
300The ACPI CA code will still
301know about the avoided region.
302.Sh OVERRIDING YOUR BIOS BYTECODE
303ACPI interprets bytecode named AML, ACPI Machine Language, provided by the BIOS
304vendor as a memory image at boot time.
305Sometimes, the AML code contains
306a problem that does not appear in the Microsoft implementation.
307So we provide a way to override it with your own AML code.
308.Pp
309In order to load your AML code,
310you must edit
311.Pa /boot/loader.conf
312and
313include the following lines.
314.Bd -literal -offset indent
315acpi_dsdt_load="YES"
316acpi_dsdt_name="/boot/acpi_dsdt.aml" #You may change the name.
317.Ed
318.Pp
319In order to prepare your AML code, you will need the
320.Xr acpidump 8
321and
322.Xr iasl 1
323utilities and some ACPI knowledge.
324.Sh TUNABLES
325.Bl -tag -width indent
326.It Va acpi_dsdt_load
327Enables loading of a custom ACPI DSDT.
328.It Va acpi_dsdt_name
329Name of the DSDT table to load, if loading is enabled.
330.It Va debug.acpi.disabled
331Selectively disables portions of ACPI for debugging purposes.
332.It Va hint.acpi.0.disabled
333Disables all of ACPI.
334.It Va hw.acpi.ec.poll_timeout
335Delay in milliseconds to wait for the EC to respond.
336Try increasing this number if you get the error
337.Er AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE .
338.It Va hw.acpi.reset_video
339Enables calling the VESA reset BIOS vector on the resume path.
340Some graphic chips have problems such as LCD white-out after resume.
341Try setting this to 0 if this causes problems for you.
342.It Va hw.acpi.osname
343Some systems' ASL may have problems because they look for names
344of Microsoft operating systems.
345This tunable overrides the value of the
346.Qq Li \e_OS
347object from its default of
348.Qq Li FreeBSD .
349.It Va hw.acpi.pci.link.%d.%d.%d.irq
350Override the interrupt to use.
351.It Va hw.acpi.verbose
352Turn on verbose debugging information about what ACPI is doing.
353.El
354.Sh SYSCTLS
355.Bl -tag -width indent
356.It Va hw.acpi.cpu.throttle_max
357Maximum value for CPU throttling, equal to 100% of the clock rate.
358.It Va hw.acpi.cpu.throttle_state
359Get or set the current throttling state, from 1 to
360.Va hw.acpi.cpu.throttle_max .
361This scales back the CPU clock rate and the corresponding power consumption.
362.It Va hw.acpi.cpu.cx_history
363Debugging information listing all sleep states and the number of
364long and short sleeps for each one.
365The counters are reset when
366.Va hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest
367is modified.
368.It Va hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest
369Lowest Cx state to use for idling the CPU.
370A scheduling algorithm will select states between C1 and this setting
371as system load dictates.
372To enable ACPI CPU idling control,
373.Va machdep.cpu_idle_hlt
374must be set to 1.
375.It Va hw.acpi.cpu.cx_supported
376List of supported CPU idle states and their transition latency
377in microseconds.
378Each state has a type (e.g., C2.)
379C1 is equivalent to the ia32 HLT instruction, C2 provides a deeper
380sleep with the same semantics, and C3 provides the deepest sleep
381but additionally requires bus mastering to be disabled.
382States greater than C3 provide even more power savings with the same
383semantics as the C3 state.
384Deeper sleeps provide more power savings but increased transition
385latency when an interrupt occurs.
386.El
387.Sh COMPATIBILITY
388ACPI is only found and supported on i386/ia32, ia64, and amd64.
389.Sh SEE ALSO
390.Xr kenv 1 ,
391.Xr acpi_thermal 4 ,
392.Xr device.hints 5 ,
393.Xr loader.conf 5 ,
394.Xr acpiconf 8 ,
395.Xr acpidump 8 ,
396.Xr config 8 ,
397.Xr iasl 8
398.Rs
399.%A "Compaq Computer Corporation"
400.%A "Intel Corporation"
401.%A "Microsoft Corporation"
402.%A "Phoenix Technologies Ltd."
403.%A "Toshiba Corporation"
404.%D August 25, 2003
405.%T "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Specification"
406.%O http://acpi.info/spec.htm
407.Re
408.Sh AUTHORS
409.An -nosplit
410The ACPI CA subsystem is developed and maintained by
411Intel Architecture Labs.
412.Pp
413The following people made notable contributions to the ACPI subsystem
414in
415.Fx :
416.An Michael Smith ,
417.An Takanori Watanabe Aq takawata@jp.FreeBSD.org ,
418.An Mitsuru IWASAKI Aq iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org ,
419.An Munehiro Matsuda ,
420.An Nate Lawson ,
421the ACPI-jp mailing list at
422.Aq acpi-jp@jp.FreeBSD.org ,
423and many other contributors.
424.Pp
425This manual page was written by
426.An Michael Smith Aq msmith@FreeBSD.org .
427.Sh BUGS
428If the
429.Nm
430driver is loaded as a module when it is already linked as part of the
431kernel, odd things may happen.
432