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28.Dd May 9, 2015
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.Cd "options DDB"
39.Sh DESCRIPTION
40The
41.Nm
42driver provides support for the Intel/Microsoft/Compaq/Toshiba ACPI
43standard.
44This support includes platform hardware discovery (superseding the
45PnP and PCI BIOS), as well as power management (superseding APM) and
46other features.
47ACPI core support is provided by the ACPI CA reference implementation
48from Intel.
49.Pp
50Note that the
51.Nm
52driver is automatically loaded by the
53.Xr loader 8 ,
54and should only be
55compiled into the kernel on platforms where ACPI is mandatory.
56.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES
57The
58.Nm
59driver is intended to provide power management without user intervention.
60If the default settings are not optimal, the following sysctls can be
61used to modify or monitor
62.Nm
63behavior.
64Note that some variables will be available only if the given hardware supports
65them (such as
66.Va hw.acpi.acline ) .
67.Bl -tag -width indent
68.It Va debug.acpi.enable_debug_objects
69Enable dumping Debug objects without
70.Cd "options ACPI_DEBUG" .
71Default is 0, ignore Debug objects.
72.It Va dev.cpu.N.cx_usage
73Debugging information listing the percent of total usage for each sleep state.
74The values are reset when
75.Va dev.cpu.N.cx_lowest
76is modified.
77.It Va dev.cpu.N.cx_lowest
78Lowest Cx state to use for idling the CPU.
79A scheduling algorithm will select states between
80.Li C1
81and this setting
82as system load dictates.
83To enable ACPI CPU idling control,
84.Va machdep.idle
85should be set to
86.Li acpi
87if it is listed in
88.Va machdep.idle_available .
89.It Va hw.acpi.cpu.cx_supported
90List of supported CPU idle states and their transition latency
91in microseconds.
92Each state has a type (e.g.,
93.Li C2 ) .
94.Li C1
95is equivalent to the ia32
96.Li HLT
97instruction,
98.Li C2
99provides a deeper
100sleep with the same semantics, and
101.Li C3
102provides the deepest sleep
103but additionally requires bus mastering to be disabled.
104States greater than
105.Li C3
106provide even more power savings with the same
107semantics as the
108.Li C3
109state.
110Deeper sleeps provide more power savings but increased transition
111latency when an interrupt occurs.
112.It Va dev.cpu.N.cx_method
113List of supported CPU idle states and their transition methods, as
114directed by the firmware.
115.It Va hw.acpi.acline
116AC line state (1 means online, 0 means on battery power).
117.It Va hw.acpi.disable_on_reboot
118Disable ACPI during the reboot process.
119Most systems reboot fine with ACPI still enabled, but some require
120exiting to legacy mode first.
121Default is 0, leave ACPI enabled.
122.It Va hw.acpi.handle_reboot
123Use the ACPI Reset Register capability to reboot the system.
124Some newer systems require use of this register, while some only work
125with legacy rebooting support.
126.It Va hw.acpi.lid_switch_state
127Suspend state
128.Pq Li S1 Ns \[en] Ns Li S5
129to enter when the lid switch (i.e., a notebook screen) is closed.
130Default is
131.Dq Li NONE
132(do nothing).
133.It Va hw.acpi.power_button_state
134Suspend state
135.Pq Li S1 Ns \[en] Ns Li S5
136to enter when the power button is pressed.
137Default is
138.Li S5
139(power-off nicely).
140.It Va hw.acpi.reset_video
141Reset the video adapter from real mode during the resume path.
142Some systems need this help, others have display problems if it is enabled.
143Default is 0 (disabled).
144.It Va hw.acpi.s4bios
145Indicate whether the system supports
146.Li S4BIOS .
147This means that the BIOS can handle all the functions of suspending the
148system to disk.
149Otherwise, the OS is responsible for suspending to disk
150.Pq Li S4OS .
151Most current systems do not support
152.Li S4BIOS .
153.It Va hw.acpi.sleep_button_state
154Suspend state
155.Pq Li S1 Ns \[en] Ns Li S5
156to enter when the sleep button is pressed.
157This is usually a special function button on the keyboard.
158Default is
159.Li S3
160(suspend-to-RAM).
161.It Va hw.acpi.sleep_delay
162Wait this number of seconds between preparing the system to suspend and
163actually entering the suspend state.
164Default is 1 second.
165.It Va hw.acpi.supported_sleep_state
166Suspend states
167.Pq Li S1 Ns \[en] Ns Li S5
168supported by the BIOS.
169.Bl -tag -width indent
170.It Li S1
171Quick suspend to RAM.
172The CPU enters a lower power state, but most peripherals are left running.
173.It Li S2
174Lower power state than
175.Li S1 ,
176but with the same basic characteristics.
177Not supported by many systems.
178.It Li S3
179Suspend to RAM.
180Most devices are powered off, and the system stops running except for
181memory refresh.
182.It Li S4
183Suspend to disk.
184All devices are powered off, and the system stops running.
185When resuming, the system starts as if from a cold power on.
186Not yet supported by
187.Fx
188unless
189.Li S4BIOS
190is available.
191.It Li S5
192System shuts down cleanly and powers off.
193.El
194.It Va hw.acpi.verbose
195Enable verbose printing from the various ACPI subsystems.
196.El
197.Sh LOADER TUNABLES
198Tunables can be set at the
199.Xr loader 8
200prompt before booting the kernel or stored in
201.Pa /boot/loader.conf .
202Many of these tunables also have a matching
203.Xr sysctl 8
204entry for access after boot.
205.Bl -tag -width indent
206.It Va acpi_dsdt_load
207Enables loading of a custom ACPI DSDT.
208.It Va acpi_dsdt_name
209Name of the DSDT table to load, if loading is enabled.
210.It Va debug.acpi.cpu_unordered
211Do not use the MADT to match ACPI Processor objects to CPUs.
212This is needed on a few systems with a buggy BIOS that does not use
213consistent processor IDs.
214Default is 0 (disabled).
215.It Va debug.acpi.disabled
216Selectively disables portions of ACPI for debugging purposes.
217.It Va debug.acpi.interpreter_slack
218Enable less strict ACPI implementations.
219Default is 1, ignore common BIOS mistakes.
220.It Va debug.acpi.max_threads
221Specify the number of task threads that are started on boot.
222Limiting this to 1 may help work around various BIOSes that cannot
223handle parallel requests.
224The default value is 3.
225.It Va debug.acpi.quirks
226Override any automatic quirks completely.
227.It Va debug.acpi.resume_beep
228Beep the PC speaker on resume.
229This can help diagnose suspend/resume problems.
230Default is 0 (disabled).
231.It Va hint.acpi.0.disabled
232Set this to 1 to disable all of ACPI.
233If ACPI has been disabled on your system due to a blacklist entry for your
234BIOS, you can set this to 0 to re-enable ACPI for testing.
235.It Va hw.acpi.ec.poll_timeout
236Delay in milliseconds to wait for the EC to respond.
237Try increasing this number if you get the error
238.Qq Li AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE .
239.It Va hw.acpi.host_mem_start
240Override the assumed memory starting address for PCI host bridges.
241.It Va hw.acpi.install_interface , hw.acpi.remove_interface
242Install or remove OS interface(s) to control return value of
243.Ql _OSI
244query method.
245When an OS interface is specified in
246.Va hw.acpi.install_interface ,
247.Li _OSI
248query for the interface returns it is
249.Em supported .
250Conversely, when an OS interface is specified in
251.Va hw.acpi.remove_interface ,
252.Li _OSI
253query returns it is
254.Em not supported .
255Multiple interfaces can be specified in a comma-separated list and
256any leading white spaces will be ignored.
257For example,
258.Qq Li FreeBSD, Linux
259is a valid list of two interfaces
260.Qq Li FreeBSD
261and
262.Qq Li Linux .
263.It Va hw.acpi.reset_video
264Enables calling the VESA reset BIOS vector on the resume path.
265This can fix some graphics cards that have problems such as LCD white-out
266after resume.
267Default is 0 (disabled).
268.It Va hw.acpi.serialize_methods
269Allow override of whether methods execute in parallel or not.
270Enable this for serial behavior, which fixes
271.Qq Li AE_ALREADY_EXISTS
272errors for
273AML that really cannot handle parallel method execution.
274It is off by default since this breaks recursive methods and some IBMs use
275such code.
276.It Va hw.acpi.verbose
277Turn on verbose debugging information about what ACPI is doing.
278.It Va hw.pci.link.%s.%d.irq
279Override the interrupt to use for this link and index.
280This capability should be used carefully, and only if a device is not
281working with
282.Nm
283enabled.
284.Qq %s
285is the name of the link (e.g., LNKA).
286.Qq %d
287is the resource index when the link supports multiple IRQs.
288Most PCI links only have one IRQ resource, so the below form should be used.
289.It Va hw.pci.link.%s.irq
290Override the interrupt to use.
291This capability should be used carefully, and only if a device is not
292working with
293.Nm
294enabled.
295.Qq %s
296is the name of the link (e.g., LNKA).
297.El
298.Sh DISABLING ACPI
299Since ACPI support on different platforms varies greatly, there are many
300debugging and tuning options available.
301.Pp
302For machines known not to work with
303.Nm
304enabled, there is a BIOS blacklist.
305Currently, the blacklist only controls whether
306.Nm
307should be disabled or not.
308In the future, it will have more granularity to control features (the
309infrastructure for that is already there).
310.Pp
311To enable
312.Nm
313(for debugging purposes, etc.) on machines that are on the blacklist, set the
314kernel environment variable
315.Va hint.acpi.0.disabled
316to 0.
317Before trying this, consider updating your BIOS to a more recent version that
318may be compatible with ACPI.
319.Pp
320To disable the
321.Nm
322driver completely, set the kernel environment variable
323.Va hint.acpi.0.disabled
324to 1.
325.Pp
326Some i386 machines totally fail to operate with some or all of ACPI disabled.
327Other i386 machines fail with ACPI enabled.
328Disabling all or part of ACPI on non-i386 platforms (i.e., platforms where
329ACPI support is mandatory) may result in a non-functional system.
330.Pp
331The
332.Nm
333driver comprises a set of drivers, which may be selectively disabled
334in case of problems.
335To disable a sub-driver, list it in the kernel
336environment variable
337.Va debug.acpi.disabled .
338Multiple entries can be listed, separated by a space.
339.Pp
340ACPI sub-devices and features that can be disabled:
341.Bl -tag -width ".Li sysresource"
342.It Li all
343Disable all ACPI features and devices.
344.It Li acad
345.Pq Vt device
346Supports AC adapter.
347.It Li bus
348.Pq Vt feature
349Probes and attaches subdevices.
350Disabling will avoid scanning the ACPI namespace entirely.
351.It Li children
352.Pq Vt feature
353Attaches standard ACPI sub-drivers and devices enumerated in the
354ACPI namespace.
355Disabling this has a similar effect to disabling
356.Dq Li bus ,
357except that the
358ACPI namespace will still be scanned.
359.It Li button
360.Pq Vt device
361Supports ACPI button devices (typically power and sleep buttons).
362.It Li cmbat
363.Pq Vt device
364Control-method batteries device.
365.It Li cpu
366.Pq Vt device
367Supports CPU power-saving and speed-setting functions.
368.It Li ec
369.Pq Vt device
370Supports the ACPI Embedded Controller interface, used to communicate
371with embedded platform controllers.
372.It Li isa
373.Pq Vt device
374Supports an ISA bus bridge defined in the ACPI namespace,
375typically as a child of a PCI bus.
376.It Li lid
377.Pq Vt device
378Supports an ACPI laptop lid switch, which typically puts a
379system to sleep.
380.It Li mwait
381.Pq Vt feature
382Do not ask firmware for available x86-vendor specific methods to enter
383.Li Cx
384sleep states.
385Only query and use the generic I/O-based entrance method.
386The knob is provided to work around inconsistencies in the tables
387filled by firmware.
388.It Li quirks
389.Pq Vt feature
390Do not honor quirks.
391Quirks automatically disable ACPI functionality based on the XSDT table's
392OEM vendor name and revision date.
393.It Li pci
394.Pq Vt device
395Supports Host to PCI bridges.
396.It Li pci_link
397.Pq Vt feature
398Performs PCI interrupt routing.
399.It Li sysresource
400.Pq Vt device
401Pseudo-devices containing resources which ACPI claims.
402.It Li thermal
403.Pq Vt device
404Supports system cooling and heat management.
405.It Li timer
406.Pq Vt device
407Implements a timecounter using the ACPI fixed-frequency timer.
408.It Li video
409.Pq Vt device
410Supports
411.Xr acpi_video 4
412which may conflict with
413.Xr agp 4
414device.
415.El
416.Pp
417It is also possible to avoid portions of the ACPI namespace which
418may be causing problems, by listing the full path of the root of
419the region to be avoided in the kernel environment variable
420.Va debug.acpi.avoid .
421The object and all of its children will be ignored during the
422bus/children scan of the namespace.
423The ACPI CA code will still know about the avoided region.
424.Sh DEBUGGING OUTPUT
425To enable debugging output,
426.Nm
427must be compiled with
428.Cd "options ACPI_DEBUG" .
429Debugging output is separated between layers and levels, where a layer is
430a component of the ACPI subsystem, and a level is a particular kind
431of debugging output.
432.Pp
433Both layers and levels are specified as a whitespace-separated list of
434tokens, with layers listed in
435.Va debug.acpi.layer
436and levels in
437.Va debug.acpi.level .
438.Pp
439The first set of layers is for ACPI-CA components, and the second is for
440.Fx
441drivers.
442The ACPI-CA layer descriptions include the prefix for the files they
443refer to.
444The supported layers are:
445.Pp
446.Bl -tag -compact -width ".Li ACPI_CA_DISASSEMBLER"
447.It Li ACPI_UTILITIES
448Utility ("ut") functions
449.It Li ACPI_HARDWARE
450Hardware access ("hw")
451.It Li ACPI_EVENTS
452Event and GPE ("ev")
453.It Li ACPI_TABLES
454Table access ("tb")
455.It Li ACPI_NAMESPACE
456Namespace evaluation ("ns")
457.It Li ACPI_PARSER
458AML parser ("ps")
459.It Li ACPI_DISPATCHER
460Internal representation of interpreter state ("ds")
461.It Li ACPI_EXECUTER
462Execute AML methods ("ex")
463.It Li ACPI_RESOURCES
464Resource parsing ("rs")
465.It Li ACPI_CA_DEBUGGER
466Debugger implementation ("db", "dm")
467.It Li ACPI_OS_SERVICES
468Usermode support routines ("os")
469.It Li ACPI_CA_DISASSEMBLER
470Disassembler implementation (unused)
471.It Li ACPI_ALL_COMPONENTS
472All the above ACPI-CA components
473.It Li ACPI_AC_ADAPTER
474AC adapter driver
475.It Li ACPI_BATTERY
476Control-method battery driver
477.It Li ACPI_BUS
478ACPI, ISA, and PCI bus drivers
479.It Li ACPI_BUTTON
480Power and sleep button driver
481.It Li ACPI_EC
482Embedded controller driver
483.It Li ACPI_FAN
484Fan driver
485.It Li ACPI_OEM
486Platform-specific driver for hotkeys, LED, etc.
487.It Li ACPI_POWER
488Power resource driver
489.It Li ACPI_PROCESSOR
490CPU driver
491.It Li ACPI_THERMAL
492Thermal zone driver
493.It Li ACPI_TIMER
494Timer driver
495.It Li ACPI_ALL_DRIVERS
496All the above
497.Fx
498ACPI drivers
499.El
500.Pp
501The supported levels are:
502.Pp
503.Bl -tag -compact -width ".Li ACPI_LV_AML_DISASSEMBLE"
504.It Li ACPI_LV_INIT
505Initialization progress
506.It Li ACPI_LV_DEBUG_OBJECT
507Stores to objects
508.It Li ACPI_LV_INFO
509General information and progress
510.It Li ACPI_LV_REPAIR
511Repair a common problem with predefined methods
512.It Li ACPI_LV_ALL_EXCEPTIONS
513All the previous levels
514.It Li ACPI_LV_PARSE
515.It Li ACPI_LV_DISPATCH
516.It Li ACPI_LV_EXEC
517.It Li ACPI_LV_NAMES
518.It Li ACPI_LV_OPREGION
519.It Li ACPI_LV_BFIELD
520.It Li ACPI_LV_TABLES
521.It Li ACPI_LV_VALUES
522.It Li ACPI_LV_OBJECTS
523.It Li ACPI_LV_RESOURCES
524.It Li ACPI_LV_USER_REQUESTS
525.It Li ACPI_LV_PACKAGE
526.It Li ACPI_LV_VERBOSITY1
527All the previous levels
528.It Li ACPI_LV_ALLOCATIONS
529.It Li ACPI_LV_FUNCTIONS
530.It Li ACPI_LV_OPTIMIZATIONS
531.It Li ACPI_LV_VERBOSITY2
532All the previous levels
533.It Li ACPI_LV_ALL
534Synonym for
535.Qq Li ACPI_LV_VERBOSITY2
536.It Li ACPI_LV_MUTEX
537.It Li ACPI_LV_THREADS
538.It Li ACPI_LV_IO
539.It Li ACPI_LV_INTERRUPTS
540.It Li ACPI_LV_VERBOSITY3
541All the previous levels
542.It Li ACPI_LV_AML_DISASSEMBLE
543.It Li ACPI_LV_VERBOSE_INFO
544.It Li ACPI_LV_FULL_TABLES
545.It Li ACPI_LV_EVENTS
546.It Li ACPI_LV_VERBOSE
547All levels after
548.Qq Li ACPI_LV_VERBOSITY3
549.It Li ACPI_LV_INIT_NAMES
550.It Li ACPI_LV_LOAD
551.El
552.Pp
553Selection of the appropriate layer and level values is important
554to avoid massive amounts of debugging output.
555For example, the following configuration is a good way to gather initial
556information.
557It enables debug output for both ACPI-CA and the
558.Nm
559driver, printing basic information about errors, warnings, and progress.
560.Bd -literal -offset indent
561debug.acpi.layer="ACPI_ALL_COMPONENTS ACPI_ALL_DRIVERS"
562debug.acpi.level="ACPI_LV_ALL_EXCEPTIONS"
563.Ed
564.Pp
565Debugging output by the ACPI CA subsystem is prefixed with the
566module name in lowercase, followed by a source line number.
567Output from the
568.Fx Ns -local
569code follows the same format, but
570the module name is uppercased.
571.Sh OVERRIDING YOUR BIOS BYTECODE
572ACPI interprets bytecode named AML
573(ACPI Machine Language)
574provided by the BIOS vendor as a memory image at boot time.
575Sometimes, the AML code contains a bug that does not appear when parsed
576by the Microsoft implementation.
577.Fx
578provides a way to override it with your own AML code to work around
579or debug such problems.
580Note that all AML in your DSDT and any SSDT tables is overridden.
581.Pp
582In order to load your AML code, you must edit
583.Pa /boot/loader.conf
584and include the following lines.
585.Bd -literal -offset indent
586acpi_dsdt_load="YES"
587acpi_dsdt_name="/boot/acpi_dsdt.aml" # You may change this name.
588.Ed
589.Pp
590In order to prepare your AML code, you will need the
591.Xr acpidump 8
592and
593.Xr iasl 8
594utilities and some ACPI knowledge.
595.Sh COMPATIBILITY
596ACPI is only found and supported on i386/ia32 and amd64.
597.Sh SEE ALSO
598.Xr kenv 1 ,
599.Xr acpi_thermal 4 ,
600.Xr device.hints 5 ,
601.Xr loader.conf 5 ,
602.Xr acpiconf 8 ,
603.Xr acpidump 8 ,
604.Xr config 8 ,
605.Xr iasl 8
606.Rs
607.%A "Compaq Computer Corporation"
608.%A "Intel Corporation"
609.%A "Microsoft Corporation"
610.%A "Phoenix Technologies Ltd."
611.%A "Toshiba Corporation"
612.%D August 25, 2003
613.%T "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Specification"
614.%U http://acpi.info/spec.htm
615.Re
616.Sh AUTHORS
617.An -nosplit
618The ACPI CA subsystem is developed and maintained by
619Intel Architecture Labs.
620.Pp
621The following people made notable contributions to the ACPI subsystem
622in
623.Fx :
624.An Michael Smith ,
625.An Takanori Watanabe Aq Mt takawata@jp.FreeBSD.org ,
626.An Mitsuru IWASAKI Aq Mt iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org ,
627.An Munehiro Matsuda ,
628.An Nate Lawson ,
629the ACPI-jp mailing list at
630.Aq Mt acpi-jp@jp.FreeBSD.org ,
631and many other contributors.
632.Pp
633This manual page was written by
634.An Michael Smith Aq Mt msmith@FreeBSD.org .
635.Sh BUGS
636Many BIOS versions have serious bugs that may cause system instability,
637break suspend/resume, or prevent devices from operating properly due to
638IRQ routing problems.
639Upgrade your BIOS to the latest version available from the vendor before
640deciding it is a problem with
641.Nm .
642