Ubuntu Manpage: acpi — Advanced Configuration and Power Management support

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NAME

     acpi — Advanced Configuration and Power Management support

SYNOPSIS

     device acpi

     options ACPI_DEBUG
     options DDB

DESCRIPTION

     The acpi driver provides support for the Intel/Microsoft/Compaq/Toshiba ACPI standard.  This
     support includes platform hardware discovery (superseding the PnP and PCI BIOS), as well as
     power management (superseding APM) and other features.  ACPI core support is provided by the
     ACPI CA reference implementation from Intel.

     Note that the acpi driver is automatically loaded by the loader(8), and should only be
     compiled into the kernel on platforms where ACPI is mandatory.

SYSCTL VARIABLES

The acpi driver is intended to provide power management without user intervention. If the
default settings are not optimal, the following sysctls can be used to modify or monitor
acpi behavior. Note that some variables will be available only if the given hardware
supports them (such as hw.acpi.acline).

debug.acpi.enable_debug_objects
Enable dumping Debug objects without options ACPI_DEBUG. Default is 0, ignore Debug
objects.

dev.cpu.N.cx_usage
Debugging information listing the percent of total usage for each sleep state. The
values are reset when dev.cpu.N.cx_lowest is modified.

dev.cpu.N.cx_lowest
Lowest Cx state to use for idling the CPU. A scheduling algorithm will select
states between C1 and this setting as system load dictates. To enable ACPI CPU
idling control, machdep.idle should be set to acpi if it is listed in
machdep.idle_available.

hw.acpi.cpu.cx_supported
List of supported CPU idle states and their transition latency in microseconds.
Each state has a type (e.g., C2). C1 is equivalent to the ia32 HLT instruction, C2
provides a deeper sleep with the same semantics, and C3 provides the deepest sleep
but additionally requires bus mastering to be disabled. States greater than C3
provide even more power savings with the same semantics as the C3 state. Deeper
sleeps provide more power savings but increased transition latency when an interrupt
occurs.

dev.cpu.N.cx_method
List of supported CPU idle states and their transition methods, as directed by the
firmware.

hw.acpi.acline
AC line state (1 means online, 0 means on battery power).

hw.acpi.disable_on_reboot
Disable ACPI during the reboot process. Most systems reboot fine with ACPI still
enabled, but some require exiting to legacy mode first. Default is 0, leave ACPI
enabled.

hw.acpi.handle_reboot
Use the ACPI Reset Register capability to reboot the system. Some newer systems
require use of this register, while some only work with legacy rebooting support.

hw.acpi.lid_switch_state
Suspend state (S1–S5) to enter when the lid switch (i.e., a notebook screen) is
closed. Default is “NONE” (do nothing).

hw.acpi.power_button_state
Suspend state (S1–S5) to enter when the power button is pressed. Default is S5
(power-off nicely).

hw.acpi.reset_video
Reset the video adapter from real mode during the resume path. Some systems need
this help, others have display problems if it is enabled. Default is 0 (disabled).

hw.acpi.s4bios
Indicate whether the system supports S4BIOS. This means that the BIOS can handle
all the functions of suspending the system to disk. Otherwise, the OS is
responsible for suspending to disk (S4OS). Most current systems do not support
S4BIOS.

hw.acpi.sleep_button_state
Suspend state (S1–S5) to enter when the sleep button is pressed. This is usually a
special function button on the keyboard. Default is S3 (suspend-to-RAM).

hw.acpi.sleep_delay
Wait this number of seconds between preparing the system to suspend and actually
entering the suspend state. Default is 1 second.

hw.acpi.supported_sleep_state
Suspend states (S1–S5) supported by the BIOS.

S1 Quick suspend to RAM. The CPU enters a lower power state, but most
peripherals are left running.

S2 Lower power state than S1, but with the same basic characteristics. Not
supported by many systems.

S3 Suspend to RAM. Most devices are powered off, and the system stops running
except for memory refresh.

S4 Suspend to disk. All devices are powered off, and the system stops running.
When resuming, the system starts as if from a cold power on. Not yet
supported by FreeBSD unless S4BIOS is available.

S5 System shuts down cleanly and powers off.

hw.acpi.verbose
Enable verbose printing from the various ACPI subsystems.

LOADER TUNABLES

Tunables can be set at the loader(8) prompt before booting the kernel or stored in
/boot/loader.conf. Many of these tunables also have a matching sysctl(8) entry for access
after boot.

acpi_dsdt_load
Enables loading of a custom ACPI DSDT.

acpi_dsdt_name
Name of the DSDT table to load, if loading is enabled.

debug.acpi.cpu_unordered
Do not use the MADT to match ACPI Processor objects to CPUs. This is needed on a
few systems with a buggy BIOS that does not use consistent processor IDs. Default
is 0 (disabled).

debug.acpi.disabled
Selectively disables portions of ACPI for debugging purposes.

debug.acpi.interpreter_slack
Enable less strict ACPI implementations. Default is 1, ignore common BIOS mistakes.

debug.acpi.max_threads
Specify the number of task threads that are started on boot. Limiting this to 1 may
help work around various BIOSes that cannot handle parallel requests. The default
value is 3.

debug.acpi.quirks
Override any automatic quirks completely.

debug.acpi.resume_beep
Beep the PC speaker on resume. This can help diagnose suspend/resume problems.
Default is 0 (disabled).

hint.acpi.0.disabled
Set this to 1 to disable all of ACPI. If ACPI has been disabled on your system due
to a blacklist entry for your BIOS, you can set this to 0 to re-enable ACPI for
testing.

hw.acpi.ec.poll_timeout
Delay in milliseconds to wait for the EC to respond. Try increasing this number if
you get the error "AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE".

hw.acpi.host_mem_start
Override the assumed memory starting address for PCI host bridges.

hw.acpi.install_interface, hw.acpi.remove_interface
Install or remove OS interface(s) to control return value of ‘_OSI’ query method.
When an OS interface is specified in hw.acpi.install_interface, _OSI query for the
interface returns it is supported. Conversely, when an OS interface is specified in
hw.acpi.remove_interface, _OSI query returns it is not supported. Multiple
interfaces can be specified in a comma-separated list and any leading white spaces
will be ignored. For example, "FreeBSD, Linux" is a valid list of two interfaces
"FreeBSD" and "Linux".

hw.acpi.reset_video
Enables calling the VESA reset BIOS vector on the resume path. This can fix some
graphics cards that have problems such as LCD white-out after resume. Default is 0
(disabled).

hw.acpi.serialize_methods
Allow override of whether methods execute in parallel or not. Enable this for
serial behavior, which fixes "AE_ALREADY_EXISTS" errors for AML that really cannot
handle parallel method execution. It is off by default since this breaks recursive
methods and some IBMs use such code.

hw.acpi.verbose
Turn on verbose debugging information about what ACPI is doing.

hw.pci.link.%s.%d.irq
Override the interrupt to use for this link and index. This capability should be
used carefully, and only if a device is not working with acpi enabled. "%s" is the
name of the link (e.g., LNKA). "%d" is the resource index when the link supports
multiple IRQs. Most PCI links only have one IRQ resource, so the below form should
be used.

hw.pci.link.%s.irq
Override the interrupt to use. This capability should be used carefully, and only
if a device is not working with acpi enabled. "%s" is the name of the link (e.g.,
LNKA).

DISABLING ACPI

Since ACPI support on different platforms varies greatly, there are many debugging and
tuning options available.

For machines known not to work with acpi enabled, there is a BIOS blacklist. Currently, the
blacklist only controls whether acpi should be disabled or not. In the future, it will have
more granularity to control features (the infrastructure for that is already there).

To enable acpi (for debugging purposes, etc.) on machines that are on the blacklist, set the
kernel environment variable hint.acpi.0.disabled to 0. Before trying this, consider
updating your BIOS to a more recent version that may be compatible with ACPI.

To disable the acpi driver completely, set the kernel environment variable
hint.acpi.0.disabled to 1.

Some i386 machines totally fail to operate with some or all of ACPI disabled. Other i386
machines fail with ACPI enabled. Disabling all or part of ACPI on non-i386 platforms (i.e.,
platforms where ACPI support is mandatory) may result in a non-functional system.

The acpi driver comprises a set of drivers, which may be selectively disabled in case of
problems. To disable a sub-driver, list it in the kernel environment variable
debug.acpi.disabled. Multiple entries can be listed, separated by a space.

ACPI sub-devices and features that can be disabled:

all Disable all ACPI features and devices.

acad (device) Supports AC adapter.

bus (feature) Probes and attaches subdevices. Disabling will avoid scanning the
ACPI namespace entirely.

children (feature) Attaches standard ACPI sub-drivers and devices enumerated in the ACPI
namespace. Disabling this has a similar effect to disabling “bus”, except that
the ACPI namespace will still be scanned.

button (device) Supports ACPI button devices (typically power and sleep buttons).

cmbat (device) Control-method batteries device.

cpu (device) Supports CPU power-saving and speed-setting functions.

ec (device) Supports the ACPI Embedded Controller interface, used to communicate
with embedded platform controllers.

isa (device) Supports an ISA bus bridge defined in the ACPI namespace, typically as
a child of a PCI bus.

lid (device) Supports an ACPI laptop lid switch, which typically puts a system to
sleep.

mwait (feature) Do not ask firmware for available x86-vendor specific methods to
enter Cx sleep states. Only query and use the generic I/O-based entrance
method. The knob is provided to work around inconsistencies in the tables
filled by firmware.

quirks (feature) Do not honor quirks. Quirks automatically disable ACPI functionality
based on the XSDT table's OEM vendor name and revision date.

pci (device) Supports Host to PCI bridges.

pci_link (feature) Performs PCI interrupt routing.

sysresource (device) Pseudo-devices containing resources which ACPI claims.

thermal (device) Supports system cooling and heat management.

timer (device) Implements a timecounter using the ACPI fixed-frequency timer.

video (device) Supports acpi_video(4) which may conflict with agp(4) device.

It is also possible to avoid portions of the ACPI namespace which may be causing problems,
by listing the full path of the root of the region to be avoided in the kernel environment
variable debug.acpi.avoid. The object and all of its children will be ignored during the
bus/children scan of the namespace. The ACPI CA code will still know about the avoided
region.

DEBUGGING OUTPUT

     To enable debugging output, acpi must be compiled with options ACPI_DEBUG.  Debugging output
     is separated between layers and levels, where a layer is a component of the ACPI subsystem,
     and a level is a particular kind of debugging output.

     Both layers and levels are specified as a whitespace-separated list of tokens, with layers
     listed in debug.acpi.layer and levels in debug.acpi.level.

     The first set of layers is for ACPI-CA components, and the second is for FreeBSD drivers.
     The ACPI-CA layer descriptions include the prefix for the files they refer to.  The
     supported layers are:

     ACPI_UTILITIES        Utility ("ut") functions
     ACPI_HARDWARE         Hardware access ("hw")
     ACPI_EVENTS           Event and GPE ("ev")
     ACPI_TABLES           Table access ("tb")
     ACPI_NAMESPACE        Namespace evaluation ("ns")
     ACPI_PARSER           AML parser ("ps")
     ACPI_DISPATCHER       Internal representation of interpreter state ("ds")
     ACPI_EXECUTER         Execute AML methods ("ex")
     ACPI_RESOURCES        Resource parsing ("rs")
     ACPI_CA_DEBUGGER      Debugger implementation ("db", "dm")
     ACPI_OS_SERVICES      Usermode support routines ("os")
     ACPI_CA_DISASSEMBLER  Disassembler implementation (unused)
     ACPI_ALL_COMPONENTS   All the above ACPI-CA components
     ACPI_AC_ADAPTER       AC adapter driver
     ACPI_BATTERY          Control-method battery driver
     ACPI_BUS              ACPI, ISA, and PCI bus drivers
     ACPI_BUTTON           Power and sleep button driver
     ACPI_EC               Embedded controller driver
     ACPI_FAN              Fan driver
     ACPI_OEM              Platform-specific driver for hotkeys, LED, etc.
     ACPI_POWER            Power resource driver
     ACPI_PROCESSOR        CPU driver
     ACPI_THERMAL          Thermal zone driver
     ACPI_TIMER            Timer driver
     ACPI_ALL_DRIVERS      All the above FreeBSD ACPI drivers

     The supported levels are:

     ACPI_LV_INIT             Initialization progress
     ACPI_LV_DEBUG_OBJECT     Stores to objects
     ACPI_LV_INFO             General information and progress
     ACPI_LV_REPAIR           Repair a common problem with predefined methods
     ACPI_LV_ALL_EXCEPTIONS   All the previous levels
     ACPI_LV_PARSE
     ACPI_LV_DISPATCH
     ACPI_LV_EXEC
     ACPI_LV_NAMES
     ACPI_LV_OPREGION
     ACPI_LV_BFIELD
     ACPI_LV_TABLES
     ACPI_LV_VALUES
     ACPI_LV_OBJECTS
     ACPI_LV_RESOURCES
     ACPI_LV_USER_REQUESTS
     ACPI_LV_PACKAGE
     ACPI_LV_VERBOSITY1       All the previous levels
     ACPI_LV_ALLOCATIONS
     ACPI_LV_FUNCTIONS
     ACPI_LV_OPTIMIZATIONS
     ACPI_LV_VERBOSITY2       All the previous levels
     ACPI_LV_ALL              Synonym for "ACPI_LV_VERBOSITY2"
     ACPI_LV_MUTEX
     ACPI_LV_THREADS
     ACPI_LV_IO
     ACPI_LV_INTERRUPTS
     ACPI_LV_VERBOSITY3       All the previous levels
     ACPI_LV_AML_DISASSEMBLE
     ACPI_LV_VERBOSE_INFO
     ACPI_LV_FULL_TABLES
     ACPI_LV_EVENTS
     ACPI_LV_VERBOSE          All levels after "ACPI_LV_VERBOSITY3"
     ACPI_LV_INIT_NAMES
     ACPI_LV_LOAD

     Selection of the appropriate layer and level values is important to avoid massive amounts of
     debugging output.  For example, the following configuration is a good way to gather initial
     information.  It enables debug output for both ACPI-CA and the acpi driver, printing basic
     information about errors, warnings, and progress.

           debug.acpi.layer="ACPI_ALL_COMPONENTS ACPI_ALL_DRIVERS"
           debug.acpi.level="ACPI_LV_ALL_EXCEPTIONS"

     Debugging output by the ACPI CA subsystem is prefixed with the module name in lowercase,
     followed by a source line number.  Output from the FreeBSD-local code follows the same
     format, but the module name is uppercased.

OVERRIDING YOUR BIOS BYTECODE

     ACPI interprets bytecode named AML (ACPI Machine Language) provided by the BIOS vendor as a
     memory image at boot time.  Sometimes, the AML code contains a bug that does not appear when
     parsed by the Microsoft implementation.  FreeBSD provides a way to override it with your own
     AML code to work around or debug such problems.  Note that all AML in your DSDT and any SSDT
     tables is overridden.

     In order to load your AML code, you must edit /boot/loader.conf and include the following
     lines.

           acpi_dsdt_load="YES"
           acpi_dsdt_name="/boot/acpi_dsdt.aml" # You may change this name.

     In order to prepare your AML code, you will need the acpidump(8) and iasl(8) utilities and
     some ACPI knowledge.

COMPATIBILITY

     ACPI is only found and supported on i386/ia32 and amd64.

AUTHORS

     The ACPI CA subsystem is developed and maintained by Intel Architecture Labs.

     The following people made notable contributions to the ACPI subsystem in FreeBSD: Michael
     Smith, Takanori Watanabe <takawata@jp.FreeBSD.org>, Mitsuru IWASAKI
     <iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org>, Munehiro Matsuda, Nate Lawson, the ACPI-jp mailing list at
     ⟨acpi-jp@jp.FreeBSD.org⟩, and many other contributors.

     This manual page was written by Michael Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org>.

BUGS

     Many BIOS versions have serious bugs that may cause system instability, break
     suspend/resume, or prevent devices from operating properly due to IRQ routing problems.
     Upgrade your BIOS to the latest version available from the vendor before deciding it is a
     problem with acpi.