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28.Dd May 4, 2012
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.
115Some newer systems require use of this register, while some only work
116with legacy rebooting support.
117.It Va hw.acpi.lid_switch_state
118Suspend state
119.Pq Li S1 Ns \[en] Ns Li S5
120to enter when the lid switch (i.e., a notebook screen) is closed.
121Default is
122.Dq Li NONE
123(do nothing).
124.It Va hw.acpi.power_button_state
125Suspend state
126.Pq Li S1 Ns \[en] Ns Li S5
127to enter when the power button is pressed.
128Default is
129.Li S5
130(power-off nicely).
131.It Va hw.acpi.reset_video
132Reset the video adapter from real mode during the resume path.
133Some systems need this help, others have display problems if it is enabled.
134Default is 0 (disabled).
135.It Va hw.acpi.s4bios
136Indicate whether the system supports
137.Li S4BIOS .
138This means that the BIOS can handle all the functions of suspending the
139system to disk.
140Otherwise, the OS is responsible for suspending to disk
141.Pq Li S4OS .
142Most current systems do not support
143.Li S4BIOS .
144.It Va hw.acpi.sleep_button_state
145Suspend state
146.Pq Li S1 Ns \[en] Ns Li S5
147to enter when the sleep button is pressed.
148This is usually a special function button on the keyboard.
149Default is
150.Li S3
151(suspend-to-RAM).
152.It Va hw.acpi.sleep_delay
153Wait this number of seconds between preparing the system to suspend and
154actually entering the suspend state.
155Default is 1 second.
156.It Va hw.acpi.supported_sleep_state
157Suspend states
158.Pq Li S1 Ns \[en] Ns Li S5
159supported by the BIOS.
160.Bl -tag -width indent
161.It Li S1
162Quick suspend to RAM.
163The CPU enters a lower power state, but most peripherals are left running.
164.It Li S2
165Lower power state than
166.Li S1 ,
167but with the same basic characteristics.
168Not supported by many systems.
169.It Li S3
170Suspend to RAM.
171Most devices are powered off, and the system stops running except for
172memory refresh.
173.It Li S4
174Suspend to disk.
175All devices are powered off, and the system stops running.
176When resuming, the system starts as if from a cold power on.
177Not yet supported by
178.Fx
179unless
180.Li S4BIOS
181is available.
182.It Li S5
183System shuts down cleanly and powers off.
184.El
185.It Va hw.acpi.verbose
186Enable verbose printing from the various ACPI subsystems.
187.El
188.Sh LOADER TUNABLES
189Tunables can be set at the
190.Xr loader 8
191prompt before booting the kernel or stored in
192.Pa /boot/loader.conf .
193Many of these tunables also have a matching
194.Xr sysctl 8
195entry for access after boot.
196.Bl -tag -width indent
197.It Va acpi_dsdt_load
198Enables loading of a custom ACPI DSDT.
199.It Va acpi_dsdt_name
200Name of the DSDT table to load, if loading is enabled.
201.It Va debug.acpi.cpu_unordered
202Do not use the MADT to match ACPI Processor objects to CPUs.
203This is needed on a few systems with a buggy BIOS that does not use
204consistent processor IDs.
205Default is 0 (disabled).
206.It Va debug.acpi.disabled
207Selectively disables portions of ACPI for debugging purposes.
208.It Va debug.acpi.interpreter_slack
209Enable less strict ACPI implementations.
210Default is 1, ignore common BIOS mistakes.
211.It Va debug.acpi.max_threads
212Specify the number of task threads that are started on boot.
213Limiting this to 1 may help work around various BIOSes that cannot
214handle parallel requests.
215The default value is 3.
216.It Va debug.acpi.quirks
217Override any automatic quirks completely.
218.It Va debug.acpi.resume_beep
219Beep the PC speaker on resume.
220This can help diagnose suspend/resume problems.
221Default is 0 (disabled).
222.It Va debug.acpi.sleep_flags
223Execute optional ACPI methods for suspend/resume.
224If the bit 0 is set (1), it will try to execute _GTS (Going To Sleep) method
225when entering suspend state.
226If the bit 1 is set (2), it will try to execute _BFS (Back From Sleep) method
227when leaving suspend state.
228If both the bits are set (3), both the methods will be tried.
229Default is 0 (disabled).
230.It Va hint.acpi.0.disabled
231Set this to 1 to disable all of ACPI.
232If ACPI has been disabled on your system due to a blacklist entry for your
233BIOS, you can set this to 0 to re-enable ACPI for testing.
234.It Va hw.acpi.ec.poll_timeout
235Delay in milliseconds to wait for the EC to respond.
236Try increasing this number if you get the error
237.Qq Li AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE .
238.It Va hw.acpi.host_mem_start
239Override the assumed memory starting address for PCI host bridges.
240.It Va hw.acpi.install_interface , hw.acpi.remove_interface
241Install or remove OS interface(s) to control return value of
242.Ql _OSI
243query method.  When an OS interface is specified in
244.Va hw.acpi.install_interface ,
245.Li _OSI
246query for the interface returns it is
247.Em supported .
248Conversely, when an OS interface is specified in
249.Va hw.acpi.remove_interface ,
250.Li _OSI
251query returns it is
252.Em not supported .
253Multiple interfaces can be specified in a comma-separated list and
254any leading white spaces will be ignored.  For 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, ia64, 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 takawata@jp.FreeBSD.org ,
615.An Mitsuru IWASAKI Aq iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org ,
616.An Munehiro Matsuda ,
617.An Nate Lawson ,
618the ACPI-jp mailing list at
619.Aq acpi-jp@jp.FreeBSD.org ,
620and many other contributors.
621.Pp
622This manual page was written by
623.An Michael Smith Aq 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.Pp
632The
633.Nm
634CPU idle power management drive conflicts with the local APIC (LAPIC)
635timer.
636Disable the local APIC timer with
637.Va hint.apic.0.clock=0
638or do not use the
639.Li C3
640and deeper states if the local APIC timer is enabled.
641