ACPI Overview

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Power Management History

ACPI
ACPI States and Software

Components
ACPI History
Changing ACPI

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Power Management History

Advanced Power Management (APM)

BIOS-based system power management

Provides CPU and device power management
Called when idle - provides CPU power mgt.
Uses device activity timeouts to determine
when to transition devices into low power
states
OS has no knowledge of what APM does
Each IBV must refine and maintain APM BIOS
code/IP
Wide variety of implementations and
functionality

No uniform user experience

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ACPI

Advanced Configuration and Power Interface

An interface specification

Conceived by Intel, Microsoft, and Toshiba (the

promoters)
ACPI/OSPM replaces APM, MPS, and PnP BIOS Spec

Allow OS-directed Power Management

(OSPM)
Defines

Hardware registers - implemented in chipset silicon

BIOS interfaces

Configuration tables
Interpreted executable function interface (Control Methods)
Motherboard device enumeration and configuration

System and device power states

ACPI Thermal Model

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ACPI Global States and

Transitions
Power
Failure

Modem
D3

HDD
D3

D2

Legacy
Boot
(SCI_EN=0)

D2

D1

G3 -Mech
Off

D0

CDROM
D3

CPU
C3

D2

D1

D1

D0

C2
C0

D0

C1

C0

ACPI
Boot
(SCI_EN=1)

BIOS
Routine

S4BIOS_F
S4BIOS_REQ
ACPI_ENABLE
(SCI_EN=1)

G0 (S0) Working

Legacy

S4

SLP_TYPx=(S1-S4)
and
SLP_EN

S3
S2
S1

ACPI_DISABLE
(SCI_EN=0)
Wake
Event
ACPI
Boot
(SCI_EN=1)

Legacy
Boot
(SCI_EN=0)

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G2 (S5) Soft Off

SLP_TYPx=S
5
and
SLP_EN
or
PWRBTN_OR

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G1 Sleeping

An ACPI System
User Interface

Operating System

Policy
Manager

Device
Drivers

ACPI
Subsystem
ACPIRelated
Hardware /
ACPI BIOS

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ACPI Software Components

ACPI Subsystem

Consumes ACPI BIOS

Interacts with ACPI Hardware

Policy Manager (OSPM)

Sets and Monitors System Policies

User Interface

Allows User Input to Policy

Device Drivers

EC, SM Bus, CM Battery, Smart Battery

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ACPI System Overview

O S
D ependent
A p p lic a tio n
A P Is

A p p lic a tio n s

K e rn e l

D e v ic e
D r iv e r

O S P M S y s te m C o d e

A C P I D r iv e r /
A M L In t e r p r e t e r

A C P I T a b le
In te r fa c e

ACPI
R e g is te r
In te rfa c e

E x is tin g
in d u s try
s ta n d a rd
r e g is te r
in te rfa c e s to :
C M O S , P IC ,
P IT s , ...

O S S p e c ific
te c h n o lo g ie s ,
in te r fa c e s , a n d c o d e .

A C P I B IO S
In te r fa c e

A C P I R e g is te r s

A C P I B IO S

O S
In d e p e n d e n t
te c h n o lo g ie s ,
in te rfa c e s ,
code, and
h a rd w a re .

A C P I T a b le s

P la tfo r m H a rd w a r e

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- A C P I S p e c C o v e rs th is a re a .
- O S s p e c ific te c h n o lo g y

B IO S
- H a rd w a re /P la tfo rm
- P r o v id e d b y A C P I C A

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ACPI Specification History

ACPI 1.0 released December 1996

ACPI 1.0a released July 1998

ACPI 1.0b released February 1999

ACPI 2.0 released July 2000

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How does ACPI change?

Periodic errata meetings held with

promoters

Either spec is updated (e.g. 1.0a, 1.0B, etc)

or an errata document is posted on the
ACPI site: http://www.acpi.info

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