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28.Dd June 23, 2014
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 hw.acpi.acline
73AC line state (1 means online, 0 means on battery power).
74.It Va hw.acpi.cpu.cx_usage
75Debugging information listing the percent of total usage for each sleep state.
76The values are reset when
77.Va hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest
78is modified.
79.It Va hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest
80Lowest Cx state to use for idling the CPU.
81A scheduling algorithm will select states between
82.Li C1
83and this setting
84as system load dictates.
85To enable ACPI CPU idling control,
86.Va machdep.idle
87should be set to
88.Li acpi
89if it is listed in
90.Va machdep.idle_available .
91.It Va hw.acpi.cpu.cx_supported
92List of supported CPU idle states and their transition latency
93in microseconds.
94Each state has a type (e.g.,
95.Li C2 ) .
96.Li C1
97is equivalent to the ia32
98.Li HLT
99instruction,
100.Li C2
101provides a deeper
102sleep with the same semantics, and
103.Li C3
104provides the deepest sleep
105but additionally requires bus mastering to be disabled.
106States greater than
107.Li C3
108provide even more power savings with the same
109semantics as the
110.Li C3
111state.
112Deeper sleeps provide more power savings but increased transition
113latency when an interrupt occurs.
114.It Va hw.acpi.disable_on_reboot
115Disable ACPI during the reboot process.
116Most systems reboot fine with ACPI still enabled, but some require
117exiting to legacy mode first.
118Default is 0, leave ACPI enabled.
119.It Va hw.acpi.handle_reboot
120Use the ACPI Reset Register capability to reboot the system.
121Some newer systems require use of this register, while some only work
122with legacy rebooting support.
123.It Va hw.acpi.lid_switch_state
124Suspend state
125.Pq Li S1 Ns \[en] Ns Li S5
126to enter when the lid switch (i.e., a notebook screen) is closed.
127Default is
128.Dq Li NONE
129(do nothing).
130.It Va hw.acpi.power_button_state
131Suspend state
132.Pq Li S1 Ns \[en] Ns Li S5
133to enter when the power button is pressed.
134Default is
135.Li S5
136(power-off nicely).
137.It Va hw.acpi.reset_video
138Reset the video adapter from real mode during the resume path.
139Some systems need this help, others have display problems if it is enabled.
140Default is 0 (disabled).
141.It Va hw.acpi.s4bios
142Indicate whether the system supports
143.Li S4BIOS .
144This means that the BIOS can handle all the functions of suspending the
145system to disk.
146Otherwise, the OS is responsible for suspending to disk
147.Pq Li S4OS .
148Most current systems do not support
149.Li S4BIOS .
150.It Va hw.acpi.sleep_button_state
151Suspend state
152.Pq Li S1 Ns \[en] Ns Li S5
153to enter when the sleep button is pressed.
154This is usually a special function button on the keyboard.
155Default is
156.Li S3
157(suspend-to-RAM).
158.It Va hw.acpi.sleep_delay
159Wait this number of seconds between preparing the system to suspend and
160actually entering the suspend state.
161Default is 1 second.
162.It Va hw.acpi.supported_sleep_state
163Suspend states
164.Pq Li S1 Ns \[en] Ns Li S5
165supported by the BIOS.
166.Bl -tag -width indent
167.It Li S1
168Quick suspend to RAM.
169The CPU enters a lower power state, but most peripherals are left running.
170.It Li S2
171Lower power state than
172.Li S1 ,
173but with the same basic characteristics.
174Not supported by many systems.
175.It Li S3
176Suspend to RAM.
177Most devices are powered off, and the system stops running except for
178memory refresh.
179.It Li S4
180Suspend to disk.
181All devices are powered off, and the system stops running.
182When resuming, the system starts as if from a cold power on.
183Not yet supported by
184.Fx
185unless
186.Li S4BIOS
187is available.
188.It Li S5
189System shuts down cleanly and powers off.
190.El
191.It Va hw.acpi.verbose
192Enable verbose printing from the various ACPI subsystems.
193.El
194.Sh LOADER TUNABLES
195Tunables can be set at the
196.Xr loader 8
197prompt before booting the kernel or stored in
198.Pa /boot/loader.conf .
199Many of these tunables also have a matching
200.Xr sysctl 8
201entry for access after boot.
202.Bl -tag -width indent
203.It Va acpi_dsdt_load
204Enables loading of a custom ACPI DSDT.
205.It Va acpi_dsdt_name
206Name of the DSDT table to load, if loading is enabled.
207.It Va debug.acpi.cpu_unordered
208Do not use the MADT to match ACPI Processor objects to CPUs.
209This is needed on a few systems with a buggy BIOS that does not use
210consistent processor IDs.
211Default is 0 (disabled).
212.It Va debug.acpi.disabled
213Selectively disables portions of ACPI for debugging purposes.
214.It Va debug.acpi.interpreter_slack
215Enable less strict ACPI implementations.
216Default is 1, ignore common BIOS mistakes.
217.It Va debug.acpi.max_threads
218Specify the number of task threads that are started on boot.
219Limiting this to 1 may help work around various BIOSes that cannot
220handle parallel requests.
221The default value is 3.
222.It Va debug.acpi.quirks
223Override any automatic quirks completely.
224.It Va debug.acpi.resume_beep
225Beep the PC speaker on resume.
226This can help diagnose suspend/resume problems.
227Default is 0 (disabled).
228.It Va hint.acpi.0.disabled
229Set this to 1 to disable all of ACPI.
230If ACPI has been disabled on your system due to a blacklist entry for your
231BIOS, you can set this to 0 to re-enable ACPI for testing.
232.It Va hw.acpi.ec.poll_timeout
233Delay in milliseconds to wait for the EC to respond.
234Try increasing this number if you get the error
235.Qq Li AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE .
236.It Va hw.acpi.host_mem_start
237Override the assumed memory starting address for PCI host bridges.
238.It Va hw.acpi.install_interface , hw.acpi.remove_interface
239Install or remove OS interface(s) to control return value of
240.Ql _OSI
241query method.
242When an OS interface is specified in
243.Va hw.acpi.install_interface ,
244.Li _OSI
245query for the interface returns it is
246.Em supported .
247Conversely, when an OS interface is specified in
248.Va hw.acpi.remove_interface ,
249.Li _OSI
250query returns it is
251.Em not supported .
252Multiple interfaces can be specified in a comma-separated list and
253any leading white spaces will be ignored.
254For example,
255.Qq Li FreeBSD, Linux
256is a valid list of two interfaces
257.Qq Li FreeBSD
258and
259.Qq Li Linux .
260.It Va hw.acpi.reset_video
261Enables calling the VESA reset BIOS vector on the resume path.
262This can fix some graphics cards that have problems such as LCD white-out
263after resume.
264Default is 0 (disabled).
265.It Va hw.acpi.serialize_methods
266Allow override of whether methods execute in parallel or not.
267Enable this for serial behavior, which fixes
268.Qq Li AE_ALREADY_EXISTS
269errors for
270AML that really cannot handle parallel method execution.
271It is off by default since this breaks recursive methods and some IBMs use
272such code.
273.It Va hw.acpi.verbose
274Turn on verbose debugging information about what ACPI is doing.
275.It Va hw.pci.link.%s.%d.irq
276Override the interrupt to use for this link and index.
277This capability should be used carefully, and only if a device is not
278working with
279.Nm
280enabled.
281.Qq %s
282is the name of the link (e.g., LNKA).
283.Qq %d
284is the resource index when the link supports multiple IRQs.
285Most PCI links only have one IRQ resource, so the below form should be used.
286.It Va hw.pci.link.%s.irq
287Override the interrupt to use.
288This capability should be used carefully, and only if a device is not
289working with
290.Nm
291enabled.
292.Qq %s
293is the name of the link (e.g., LNKA).
294.El
295.Sh DISABLING ACPI
296Since ACPI support on different platforms varies greatly, there are many
297debugging and tuning options available.
298.Pp
299For machines known not to work with
300.Nm
301enabled, there is a BIOS blacklist.
302Currently, the blacklist only controls whether
303.Nm
304should be disabled or not.
305In the future, it will have more granularity to control features (the
306infrastructure for that is already there).
307.Pp
308To enable
309.Nm
310(for debugging purposes, etc.) on machines that are on the blacklist, set the
311kernel environment variable
312.Va hint.acpi.0.disabled
313to 0.
314Before trying this, consider updating your BIOS to a more recent version that
315may be compatible with ACPI.
316.Pp
317To disable the
318.Nm
319driver completely, set the kernel environment variable
320.Va hint.acpi.0.disabled
321to 1.
322.Pp
323Some i386 machines totally fail to operate with some or all of ACPI disabled.
324Other i386 machines fail with ACPI enabled.
325Disabling all or part of ACPI on non-i386 platforms (i.e., platforms where
326ACPI support is mandatory) may result in a non-functional system.
327.Pp
328The
329.Nm
330driver comprises a set of drivers, which may be selectively disabled
331in case of problems.
332To disable a sub-driver, list it in the kernel
333environment variable
334.Va debug.acpi.disabled .
335Multiple entries can be listed, separated by a space.
336.Pp
337ACPI sub-devices and features that can be disabled:
338.Bl -tag -width ".Li sysresource"
339.It Li all
340Disable all ACPI features and devices.
341.It Li acad
342.Pq Vt device
343Supports AC adapter.
344.It Li bus
345.Pq Vt feature
346Probes and attaches subdevices.
347Disabling will avoid scanning the ACPI namespace entirely.
348.It Li children
349.Pq Vt feature
350Attaches standard ACPI sub-drivers and devices enumerated in the
351ACPI namespace.
352Disabling this has a similar effect to disabling
353.Dq Li bus ,
354except that the
355ACPI namespace will still be scanned.
356.It Li button
357.Pq Vt device
358Supports ACPI button devices (typically power and sleep buttons).
359.It Li cmbat
360.Pq Vt device
361Control-method batteries device.
362.It Li cpu
363.Pq Vt device
364Supports CPU power-saving and speed-setting functions.
365.It Li ec
366.Pq Vt device
367Supports the ACPI Embedded Controller interface, used to communicate
368with embedded platform controllers.
369.It Li isa
370.Pq Vt device
371Supports an ISA bus bridge defined in the ACPI namespace,
372typically as a child of a PCI bus.
373.It Li lid
374.Pq Vt device
375Supports an ACPI laptop lid switch, which typically puts a
376system to sleep.
377.It Li quirks
378.Pq Vt feature
379Do not honor quirks.
380Quirks automatically disable ACPI functionality based on the XSDT table's
381OEM vendor name and revision date.
382.It Li pci
383.Pq Vt device
384Supports Host to PCI bridges.
385.It Li pci_link
386.Pq Vt feature
387Performs PCI interrupt routing.
388.It Li sysresource
389.Pq Vt device
390Pseudo-devices containing resources which ACPI claims.
391.It Li thermal
392.Pq Vt device
393Supports system cooling and heat management.
394.It Li timer
395.Pq Vt device
396Implements a timecounter using the ACPI fixed-frequency timer.
397.It Li video
398.Pq Vt device
399Supports
400.Xr acpi_video 4
401which may conflict with
402.Xr agp 4
403device.
404.El
405.Pp
406It is also possible to avoid portions of the ACPI namespace which
407may be causing problems, by listing the full path of the root of
408the region to be avoided in the kernel environment variable
409.Va debug.acpi.avoid .
410The object and all of its children will be ignored during the
411bus/children scan of the namespace.
412The ACPI CA code will still know about the avoided region.
413.Sh DEBUGGING OUTPUT
414To enable debugging output,
415.Nm
416must be compiled with
417.Cd "options ACPI_DEBUG" .
418Debugging output is separated between layers and levels, where a layer is
419a component of the ACPI subsystem, and a level is a particular kind
420of debugging output.
421.Pp
422Both layers and levels are specified as a whitespace-separated list of
423tokens, with layers listed in
424.Va debug.acpi.layer
425and levels in
426.Va debug.acpi.level .
427.Pp
428The first set of layers is for ACPI-CA components, and the second is for
429.Fx
430drivers.
431The ACPI-CA layer descriptions include the prefix for the files they
432refer to.
433The supported layers are:
434.Pp
435.Bl -tag -compact -width ".Li ACPI_CA_DISASSEMBLER"
436.It Li ACPI_UTILITIES
437Utility ("ut") functions
438.It Li ACPI_HARDWARE
439Hardware access ("hw")
440.It Li ACPI_EVENTS
441Event and GPE ("ev")
442.It Li ACPI_TABLES
443Table access ("tb")
444.It Li ACPI_NAMESPACE
445Namespace evaluation ("ns")
446.It Li ACPI_PARSER
447AML parser ("ps")
448.It Li ACPI_DISPATCHER
449Internal representation of interpreter state ("ds")
450.It Li ACPI_EXECUTER
451Execute AML methods ("ex")
452.It Li ACPI_RESOURCES
453Resource parsing ("rs")
454.It Li ACPI_CA_DEBUGGER
455Debugger implementation ("db", "dm")
456.It Li ACPI_OS_SERVICES
457Usermode support routines ("os")
458.It Li ACPI_CA_DISASSEMBLER
459Disassembler implementation (unused)
460.It Li ACPI_ALL_COMPONENTS
461All the above ACPI-CA components
462.It Li ACPI_AC_ADAPTER
463AC adapter driver
464.It Li ACPI_BATTERY
465Control-method battery driver
466.It Li ACPI_BUS
467ACPI, ISA, and PCI bus drivers
468.It Li ACPI_BUTTON
469Power and sleep button driver
470.It Li ACPI_EC
471Embedded controller driver
472.It Li ACPI_FAN
473Fan driver
474.It Li ACPI_OEM
475Platform-specific driver for hotkeys, LED, etc.
476.It Li ACPI_POWER
477Power resource driver
478.It Li ACPI_PROCESSOR
479CPU driver
480.It Li ACPI_THERMAL
481Thermal zone driver
482.It Li ACPI_TIMER
483Timer driver
484.It Li ACPI_ALL_DRIVERS
485All the above
486.Fx
487ACPI drivers
488.El
489.Pp
490The supported levels are:
491.Pp
492.Bl -tag -compact -width ".Li ACPI_LV_AML_DISASSEMBLE"
493.It Li ACPI_LV_INIT
494Initialization progress
495.It Li ACPI_LV_DEBUG_OBJECT
496Stores to objects
497.It Li ACPI_LV_INFO
498General information and progress
499.It Li ACPI_LV_REPAIR
500Repair a common problem with predefined methods
501.It Li ACPI_LV_ALL_EXCEPTIONS
502All the previous levels
503.It Li ACPI_LV_PARSE
504.It Li ACPI_LV_DISPATCH
505.It Li ACPI_LV_EXEC
506.It Li ACPI_LV_NAMES
507.It Li ACPI_LV_OPREGION
508.It Li ACPI_LV_BFIELD
509.It Li ACPI_LV_TABLES
510.It Li ACPI_LV_VALUES
511.It Li ACPI_LV_OBJECTS
512.It Li ACPI_LV_RESOURCES
513.It Li ACPI_LV_USER_REQUESTS
514.It Li ACPI_LV_PACKAGE
515.It Li ACPI_LV_VERBOSITY1
516All the previous levels
517.It Li ACPI_LV_ALLOCATIONS
518.It Li ACPI_LV_FUNCTIONS
519.It Li ACPI_LV_OPTIMIZATIONS
520.It Li ACPI_LV_VERBOSITY2
521All the previous levels
522.It Li ACPI_LV_ALL
523Synonym for
524.Qq Li ACPI_LV_VERBOSITY2
525.It Li ACPI_LV_MUTEX
526.It Li ACPI_LV_THREADS
527.It Li ACPI_LV_IO
528.It Li ACPI_LV_INTERRUPTS
529.It Li ACPI_LV_VERBOSITY3
530All the previous levels
531.It Li ACPI_LV_AML_DISASSEMBLE
532.It Li ACPI_LV_VERBOSE_INFO
533.It Li ACPI_LV_FULL_TABLES
534.It Li ACPI_LV_EVENTS
535.It Li ACPI_LV_VERBOSE
536All levels after
537.Qq Li ACPI_LV_VERBOSITY3
538.It Li ACPI_LV_INIT_NAMES
539.It Li ACPI_LV_LOAD
540.El
541.Pp
542Selection of the appropriate layer and level values is important
543to avoid massive amounts of debugging output.
544For example, the following configuration is a good way to gather initial
545information.
546It enables debug output for both ACPI-CA and the
547.Nm
548driver, printing basic information about errors, warnings, and progress.
549.Bd -literal -offset indent
550debug.acpi.layer="ACPI_ALL_COMPONENTS ACPI_ALL_DRIVERS"
551debug.acpi.level="ACPI_LV_ALL_EXCEPTIONS"
552.Ed
553.Pp
554Debugging output by the ACPI CA subsystem is prefixed with the
555module name in lowercase, followed by a source line number.
556Output from the
557.Fx Ns -local
558code follows the same format, but
559the module name is uppercased.
560.Sh OVERRIDING YOUR BIOS BYTECODE
561ACPI interprets bytecode named AML
562(ACPI Machine Language)
563provided by the BIOS vendor as a memory image at boot time.
564Sometimes, the AML code contains a bug that does not appear when parsed
565by the Microsoft implementation.
566.Fx
567provides a way to override it with your own AML code to work around
568or debug such problems.
569Note that all AML in your DSDT and any SSDT tables is overridden.
570.Pp
571In order to load your AML code, you must edit
572.Pa /boot/loader.conf
573and include the following lines.
574.Bd -literal -offset indent
575acpi_dsdt_load="YES"
576acpi_dsdt_name="/boot/acpi_dsdt.aml" # You may change this name.
577.Ed
578.Pp
579In order to prepare your AML code, you will need the
580.Xr acpidump 8
581and
582.Xr iasl 8
583utilities and some ACPI knowledge.
584.Sh COMPATIBILITY
585ACPI is only found and supported on i386/ia32 and amd64.
586.Sh SEE ALSO
587.Xr kenv 1 ,
588.Xr acpi_thermal 4 ,
589.Xr device.hints 5 ,
590.Xr loader.conf 5 ,
591.Xr acpiconf 8 ,
592.Xr acpidump 8 ,
593.Xr config 8 ,
594.Xr iasl 8
595.Rs
596.%A "Compaq Computer Corporation"
597.%A "Intel Corporation"
598.%A "Microsoft Corporation"
599.%A "Phoenix Technologies Ltd."
600.%A "Toshiba Corporation"
601.%D August 25, 2003
602.%T "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Specification"
603.%U http://acpi.info/spec.htm
604.Re
605.Sh AUTHORS
606.An -nosplit
607The ACPI CA subsystem is developed and maintained by
608Intel Architecture Labs.
609.Pp
610The following people made notable contributions to the ACPI subsystem
611in
612.Fx :
613.An Michael Smith ,
614.An Takanori Watanabe Aq Mt takawata@jp.FreeBSD.org ,
615.An Mitsuru IWASAKI Aq Mt iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org ,
616.An Munehiro Matsuda ,
617.An Nate Lawson ,
618the ACPI-jp mailing list at
619.Aq Mt acpi-jp@jp.FreeBSD.org ,
620and many other contributors.
621.Pp
622This manual page was written by
623.An Michael Smith Aq Mt msmith@FreeBSD.org .
624.Sh BUGS
625Many BIOS versions have serious bugs that may cause system instability,
626break suspend/resume, or prevent devices from operating properly due to
627IRQ routing problems.
628Upgrade your BIOS to the latest version available from the vendor before
629deciding it is a problem with
630.Nm .
631