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28.Dd June 2, 2010
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.
64.Bl -tag -width indent
65.It Va debug.acpi.enable_debug_objects
66Enable dumping Debug objects without
67.Cd "options ACPI_DEBUG" .
68Default is 0, ignore Debug objects.
69.It Va hw.acpi.acline
70AC line state (1 means online, 0 means on battery power).
71.It Va hw.acpi.cpu.cx_usage
72Debugging information listing the percent of total usage for each sleep state.
73The values are reset when
74.Va hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest
75is modified.
76.It Va hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest
77Lowest Cx state to use for idling the CPU.
78A scheduling algorithm will select states between
79.Li C1
80and this setting
81as system load dictates.
82To enable ACPI CPU idling control,
83.Va machdep.cpu_idle_hlt
84must be set to 1.
85.It Va hw.acpi.cpu.cx_supported
86List of supported CPU idle states and their transition latency
87in microseconds.
88Each state has a type (e.g.,
89.Li C2 ) .
90.Li C1
91is equivalent to the ia32
92.Li HLT
93instruction,
94.Li C2
95provides a deeper
96sleep with the same semantics, and
97.Li C3
98provides the deepest sleep
99but additionally requires bus mastering to be disabled.
100States greater than
101.Li C3
102provide even more power savings with the same
103semantics as the
104.Li C3
105state.
106Deeper sleeps provide more power savings but increased transition
107latency when an interrupt occurs.
108.It Va hw.acpi.disable_on_reboot
109Disable ACPI during the reboot process.
110Most systems reboot fine with ACPI still enabled, but some require
111exiting to legacy mode first.
112Default is 0, leave ACPI enabled.
113.It Va hw.acpi.handle_reboot
114Use the ACPI Reset Register capability to reboot the system.
115Default is 0, use legacy reboot support.
116Some newer systems require use of this register, while some only work
117with legacy rebooting support.
118.It Va hw.acpi.lid_switch_state
119Suspend state
120.Pq Li S1 Ns \[en] Ns Li S5
121to enter when the lid switch (i.e., a notebook screen) is closed.
122Default is
123.Dq Li NONE
124(do nothing).
125.It Va hw.acpi.power_button_state
126Suspend state
127.Pq Li S1 Ns \[en] Ns Li S5
128to enter when the power button is pressed.
129Default is
130.Li S5
131(power-off nicely).
132.It Va hw.acpi.reset_video
133Reset the video adapter from real mode during the resume path.
134Some systems need this help, others have display problems if it is enabled.
135Default is 0 (disabled).
136.It Va hw.acpi.s4bios
137Indicate whether the system supports
138.Li S4BIOS .
139This means that the BIOS can handle all the functions of suspending the
140system to disk.
141Otherwise, the OS is responsible for suspending to disk
142.Pq Li S4OS .
143Most current systems do not support
144.Li S4BIOS .
145.It Va hw.acpi.sleep_button_state
146Suspend state
147.Pq Li S1 Ns \[en] Ns Li S5
148to enter when the sleep button is pressed.
149This is usually a special function button on the keyboard.
150Default is
151.Li S3
152(suspend-to-RAM).
153.It Va hw.acpi.sleep_delay
154Wait this number of seconds between preparing the system to suspend and
155actually entering the suspend state.
156Default is 1 second.
157.It Va hw.acpi.supported_sleep_state
158Suspend states
159.Pq Li S1 Ns \[en] Ns Li S5
160supported by the BIOS.
161.Bl -tag -width indent
162.It Li S1
163Quick suspend to RAM.
164The CPU enters a lower power state, but most peripherals are left running.
165.It Li S2
166Lower power state than
167.Li S1 ,
168but with the same basic characteristics.
169Not supported by many systems.
170.It Li S3
171Suspend to RAM.
172Most devices are powered off, and the system stops running except for
173memory refresh.
174.It Li S4
175Suspend to disk.
176All devices are powered off, and the system stops running.
177When resuming, the system starts as if from a cold power on.
178Not yet supported by
179.Fx
180unless
181.Li S4BIOS
182is available.
183.It Li S5
184System shuts down cleanly and powers off.
185.El
186.It Va hw.acpi.verbose
187Enable verbose printing from the various ACPI subsystems.
188.El
189.Sh LOADER TUNABLES
190Tunables can be set at the
191.Xr loader 8
192prompt before booting the kernel or stored in
193.Pa /boot/loader.conf .
194Many of these tunables also have a matching
195.Xr sysctl 8
196entry for access after boot.
197.Bl -tag -width indent
198.It Va acpi_dsdt_load
199Enables loading of a custom ACPI DSDT.
200.It Va acpi_dsdt_name
201Name of the DSDT table to load, if loading is enabled.
202.It Va debug.acpi.disabled
203Selectively disables portions of ACPI for debugging purposes.
204.It Va debug.acpi.interpreter_slack
205Enable less strict ACPI implementations.
206Default is 1, ignore common BIOS mistakes.
207.It Va debug.acpi.max_threads
208Specify the number of task threads that are started on boot.
209Limiting this to 1 may help work around various BIOSes that cannot
210handle parallel requests.
211The default value is 3.
212.It Va debug.acpi.quirks
213Override any automatic quirks completely.
214.It Va debug.acpi.resume_beep
215Beep the PC speaker on resume.
216This can help diagnose suspend/resume problems.
217Default is 0 (disabled).
218.It Va hint.acpi.0.disabled
219Set this to 1 to disable all of ACPI.
220If ACPI has been disabled on your system due to a blacklist entry for your
221BIOS, you can set this to 0 to re-enable ACPI for testing.
222.It Va hw.acpi.ec.poll_timeout
223Delay in milliseconds to wait for the EC to respond.
224Try increasing this number if you get the error
225.Qq Li AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE .
226.It Va hw.acpi.host_mem_start
227Override the assumed memory starting address for PCI host bridges.
228.It Va hw.acpi.reset_video
229Enables calling the VESA reset BIOS vector on the resume path.
230This can fix some graphics cards that have problems such as LCD white-out
231after resume.
232Default is 0 (disabled).
233.It Va hw.acpi.serialize_methods
234Allow override of whether methods execute in parallel or not.
235Enable this for serial behavior, which fixes
236.Qq Li AE_ALREADY_EXISTS
237errors for
238AML that really cannot handle parallel method execution.
239It is off by default since this breaks recursive methods and some IBMs use
240such code.
241.It Va hw.acpi.verbose
242Turn on verbose debugging information about what ACPI is doing.
243.It Va hw.pci.link.%s.%d.irq
244Override the interrupt to use for this link and index.
245This capability should be used carefully, and only if a device is not
246working with
247.Nm
248enabled.
249.Qq %s
250is the name of the link (e.g., LNKA).
251.Qq %d
252is the resource index when the link supports multiple IRQs.
253Most PCI links only have one IRQ resource, so the below form should be used.
254.It Va hw.pci.link.%s.irq
255Override the interrupt to use.
256This capability should be used carefully, and only if a device is not
257working with
258.Nm
259enabled.
260.Qq %s
261is the name of the link (e.g., LNKA).
262.El
263.Sh DISABLING ACPI
264Since ACPI support on different platforms varies greatly, there are many
265debugging and tuning options available.
266.Pp
267For machines known not to work with
268.Nm
269enabled, there is a BIOS blacklist.
270Currently, the blacklist only controls whether
271.Nm
272should be disabled or not.
273In the future, it will have more granularity to control features (the
274infrastructure for that is already there).
275.Pp
276To enable
277.Nm
278(for debugging purposes, etc.) on machines that are on the blacklist, set the
279kernel environment variable
280.Va hint.acpi.0.disabled
281to 0.
282Before trying this, consider updating your BIOS to a more recent version that
283may be compatible with ACPI.
284.Pp
285To disable the
286.Nm
287driver completely, set the kernel environment variable
288.Va hint.acpi.0.disabled
289to 1.
290.Pp
291Some i386 machines totally fail to operate with some or all of ACPI disabled.
292Other i386 machines fail with ACPI enabled.
293Disabling all or part of ACPI on non-i386 platforms (i.e., platforms where
294ACPI support is mandatory) may result in a non-functional system.
295.Pp
296The
297.Nm
298driver comprises a set of drivers, which may be selectively disabled
299in case of problems.
300To disable a sub-driver, list it in the kernel
301environment variable
302.Va debug.acpi.disabled .
303Multiple entries can be listed, separated by a space.
304.Pp
305ACPI sub-devices and features that can be disabled:
306.Bl -tag -width ".Li sysresource"
307.It Li all
308Disable all ACPI features and devices.
309.It Li acad
310.Pq Vt device
311Supports AC adapter.
312.It Li bus
313.Pq Vt feature
314Probes and attaches subdevices.
315Disabling will avoid scanning the ACPI namespace entirely.
316.It Li children
317.Pq Vt feature
318Attaches standard ACPI sub-drivers and devices enumerated in the
319ACPI namespace.
320Disabling this has a similar effect to disabling
321.Dq Li bus ,
322except that the
323ACPI namespace will still be scanned.
324.It Li button
325.Pq Vt device
326Supports ACPI button devices (typically power and sleep buttons).
327.It Li cmbat
328.Pq Vt device
329Control-method batteries device.
330.It Li cpu
331.Pq Vt device
332Supports CPU power-saving and speed-setting functions.
333.It Li ec
334.Pq Vt device
335Supports the ACPI Embedded Controller interface, used to communicate
336with embedded platform controllers.
337.It Li isa
338.Pq Vt device
339Supports an ISA bus bridge defined in the ACPI namespace,
340typically as a child of a PCI bus.
341.It Li lid
342.Pq Vt device
343Supports an ACPI laptop lid switch, which typically puts a
344system to sleep.
345.It Li quirks
346.Pq Vt feature
347Do not honor quirks.
348Quirks automatically disable ACPI functionality based on the XSDT table's
349OEM vendor name and revision date.
350.It Li pci
351.Pq Vt device
352Supports Host to PCI bridges.
353.It Li pci_link
354.Pq Vt feature
355Performs PCI interrupt routing.
356.It Li sysresource
357.Pq Vt device
358Pseudo-devices containing resources which ACPI claims.
359.It Li thermal
360.Pq Vt device
361Supports system cooling and heat management.
362.It Li timer
363.Pq Vt device
364Implements a timecounter using the ACPI fixed-frequency timer.
365.It Li video
366.Pq Vt device
367Supports
368.Xr acpi_video 4
369which may conflict with
370.Xr agp 4
371device.
372.El
373.Pp
374It is also possible to avoid portions of the ACPI namespace which
375may be causing problems, by listing the full path of the root of
376the region to be avoided in the kernel environment variable
377.Va debug.acpi.avoid .
378The object and all of its children will be ignored during the
379bus/children scan of the namespace.
380The ACPI CA code will still know about the avoided region.
381.Sh DEBUGGING OUTPUT
382To enable debugging output,
383.Nm
384must be compiled with
385.Cd "options ACPI_DEBUG" .
386Debugging output is separated between layers and levels, where a layer is
387a component of the ACPI subsystem, and a level is a particular kind
388of debugging output.
389.Pp
390Both layers and levels are specified as a whitespace-separated list of
391tokens, with layers listed in
392.Va debug.acpi.layer
393and levels in
394.Va debug.acpi.level .
395.Pp
396The first set of layers is for ACPI-CA components, and the second is for
397.Fx
398drivers.
399The ACPI-CA layer descriptions include the prefix for the files they
400refer to.
401The supported layers are:
402.Pp
403.Bl -tag -compact -width ".Li ACPI_CA_DISASSEMBLER"
404.It Li ACPI_UTILITIES
405Utility ("ut") functions
406.It Li ACPI_HARDWARE
407Hardware access ("hw")
408.It Li ACPI_EVENTS
409Event and GPE ("ev")
410.It Li ACPI_TABLES
411Table access ("tb")
412.It Li ACPI_NAMESPACE
413Namespace evaluation ("ns")
414.It Li ACPI_PARSER
415AML parser ("ps")
416.It Li ACPI_DISPATCHER
417Internal representation of interpreter state ("ds")
418.It Li ACPI_EXECUTER
419Execute AML methods ("ex")
420.It Li ACPI_RESOURCES
421Resource parsing ("rs")
422.It Li ACPI_CA_DEBUGGER
423Debugger implementation ("db", "dm")
424.It Li ACPI_OS_SERVICES
425Usermode support routines ("os")
426.It Li ACPI_CA_DISASSEMBLER
427Disassembler implementation (unused)
428.It Li ACPI_ALL_COMPONENTS
429All the above ACPI-CA components
430.It Li ACPI_AC_ADAPTER
431AC adapter driver
432.It Li ACPI_BATTERY
433Control-method battery driver
434.It Li ACPI_BUS
435ACPI, ISA, and PCI bus drivers
436.It Li ACPI_BUTTON
437Power and sleep button driver
438.It Li ACPI_EC
439Embedded controller driver
440.It Li ACPI_FAN
441Fan driver
442.It Li ACPI_OEM
443Platform-specific driver for hotkeys, LED, etc.
444.It Li ACPI_POWER
445Power resource driver
446.It Li ACPI_PROCESSOR
447CPU driver
448.It Li ACPI_THERMAL
449Thermal zone driver
450.It Li ACPI_TIMER
451Timer driver
452.It Li ACPI_ALL_DRIVERS
453All the above
454.Fx
455ACPI drivers
456.El
457.Pp
458The supported levels are:
459.Pp
460.Bl -tag -compact -width ".Li ACPI_LV_AML_DISASSEMBLE"
461.It Li ACPI_LV_INIT
462Initialization progress
463.It Li ACPI_LV_DEBUG_OBJECT
464Stores to objects
465.It Li ACPI_LV_INFO
466General information and progress
467.It Li ACPI_LV_ALL_EXCEPTIONS
468All the previous levels
469.It Li ACPI_LV_PARSE
470.It Li ACPI_LV_DISPATCH
471.It Li ACPI_LV_EXEC
472.It Li ACPI_LV_NAMES
473.It Li ACPI_LV_OPREGION
474.It Li ACPI_LV_BFIELD
475.It Li ACPI_LV_TABLES
476.It Li ACPI_LV_VALUES
477.It Li ACPI_LV_OBJECTS
478.It Li ACPI_LV_RESOURCES
479.It Li ACPI_LV_USER_REQUESTS
480.It Li ACPI_LV_PACKAGE
481.It Li ACPI_LV_VERBOSITY1
482All the previous levels
483.It Li ACPI_LV_ALLOCATIONS
484.It Li ACPI_LV_FUNCTIONS
485.It Li ACPI_LV_OPTIMIZATIONS
486.It Li ACPI_LV_VERBOSITY2
487All the previous levels
488.It Li ACPI_LV_ALL
489Synonym for
490.Qq Li ACPI_LV_VERBOSITY2
491.It Li ACPI_LV_MUTEX
492.It Li ACPI_LV_THREADS
493.It Li ACPI_LV_IO
494.It Li ACPI_LV_INTERRUPTS
495.It Li ACPI_LV_VERBOSITY3
496All the previous levels
497.It Li ACPI_LV_AML_DISASSEMBLE
498.It Li ACPI_LV_VERBOSE_INFO
499.It Li ACPI_LV_FULL_TABLES
500.It Li ACPI_LV_EVENTS
501.It Li ACPI_LV_VERBOSE
502All levels after
503.Qq Li ACPI_LV_VERBOSITY3
504.It Li ACPI_LV_INIT_NAMES
505.It Li ACPI_LV_LOAD
506.El
507.Pp
508Selection of the appropriate layer and level values is important
509to avoid massive amounts of debugging output.
510For example, the following configuration is a good way to gather initial
511information.
512It enables debug output for both ACPI-CA and the
513.Nm
514driver, printing basic information about errors, warnings, and progress.
515.Bd -literal -offset indent
516debug.acpi.layer="ACPI_ALL_COMPONENTS ACPI_ALL_DRIVERS"
517debug.acpi.level="ACPI_LV_ALL_EXCEPTIONS"
518.Ed
519.Pp
520Debugging output by the ACPI CA subsystem is prefixed with the
521module name in lowercase, followed by a source line number.
522Output from the
523.Fx Ns -local
524code follows the same format, but
525the module name is uppercased.
526.Sh OVERRIDING YOUR BIOS BYTECODE
527ACPI interprets bytecode named AML
528(ACPI Machine Language)
529provided by the BIOS vendor as a memory image at boot time.
530Sometimes, the AML code contains a bug that does not appear when parsed
531by the Microsoft implementation.
532.Fx
533provides a way to override it with your own AML code to work around
534or debug such problems.
535Note that all AML in your DSDT and any SSDT tables is overridden.
536.Pp
537In order to load your AML code, you must edit
538.Pa /boot/loader.conf
539and include the following lines.
540.Bd -literal -offset indent
541acpi_dsdt_load="YES"
542acpi_dsdt_name="/boot/acpi_dsdt.aml" # You may change this name.
543.Ed
544.Pp
545In order to prepare your AML code, you will need the
546.Xr acpidump 8
547and
548.Xr iasl 8
549utilities and some ACPI knowledge.
550.Sh COMPATIBILITY
551ACPI is only found and supported on i386/ia32, ia64, and amd64.
552.Sh SEE ALSO
553.Xr kenv 1 ,
554.Xr acpi_thermal 4 ,
555.Xr device.hints 5 ,
556.Xr loader.conf 5 ,
557.Xr acpiconf 8 ,
558.Xr acpidump 8 ,
559.Xr config 8 ,
560.Xr iasl 8
561.Rs
562.%A "Compaq Computer Corporation"
563.%A "Intel Corporation"
564.%A "Microsoft Corporation"
565.%A "Phoenix Technologies Ltd."
566.%A "Toshiba Corporation"
567.%D August 25, 2003
568.%T "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Specification"
569.%U http://acpi.info/spec.htm
570.Re
571.Sh AUTHORS
572.An -nosplit
573The ACPI CA subsystem is developed and maintained by
574Intel Architecture Labs.
575.Pp
576The following people made notable contributions to the ACPI subsystem
577in
578.Fx :
579.An Michael Smith ,
580.An Takanori Watanabe Aq takawata@jp.FreeBSD.org ,
581.An Mitsuru IWASAKI Aq iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org ,
582.An Munehiro Matsuda ,
583.An Nate Lawson ,
584the ACPI-jp mailing list at
585.Aq acpi-jp@jp.FreeBSD.org ,
586and many other contributors.
587.Pp
588This manual page was written by
589.An Michael Smith Aq msmith@FreeBSD.org .
590.Sh BUGS
591Many BIOS versions have serious bugs that may cause system instability,
592break suspend/resume, or prevent devices from operating properly due to
593IRQ routing problems.
594Upgrade your BIOS to the latest version available from the vendor before
595deciding it is a problem with
596.Nm .
597.Pp
598The
599.Nm
600CPU idle power management drive conflicts with the local APIC (LAPIC)
601timer.
602Disable the local APIC timer with
603.Va hint.apic.0.clock=0
604or do not use the
605.Li C3
606and deeper states if the local APIC timer is enabled.
607