man/man4/acpi.4

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.Dd April 25, 2010
.Dt ACPI 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm acpi
.Nd Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "acpi0	at mainbus0"
.Pp
.Cd "options   ACPI_DEBUG"
.Cd "options   ACPIVERBOSE"
.Cd "options   ACPI_ACTIVATE_DEV"
.Cd "options   ACPI_DSDT_OVERRIDE"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nx
provides machine-independent bus support for
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
.Pq Tn ACPI
devices and includes several
.Tn ACPI
device drivers.
.Pp
The
.Nx
implementation of
.Tn ACPI
integrates Intel's ACPI Component Architecture
.Pq Tn ACPI-CA
for the OS-independent part.
The
.Tn ACPI-CA
provides OS-neutral
.Tn ACPI
functionalities such as
.Tn ACPI
.Tn BIOS
table support,
an
.Tn ACPI
event framework and an ACPI Machine Language
.Pq Tn AML
interpreter.
.Pp
Options:
.Bl -tag -width ACPI_DSDT_FILE__filename_XX -offset 3n
.It Dv ACPI_DEBUG
Enable
.Tn ACPI
debugging message outputs.
.It Dv ACPI_ACTIVATE_DEV
Determine if the
.Tn ACPI
driver should attempt to activate inactive devices.
The default is off.
.It Dv ACPI_DSDT_OVERRIDE
Force a given Differentiated System Description Table
.Pq Tn DSDT
instead of the version supplied by the
.Tn BIOS .
Use
.Dv ACPI_DSDT_FILE
to specify a
.Tn DSDT .
.It Dv ACPI_DSDT_FILE="filename"
If
.Dv ACPI_DSDT_FILE
is not specified, default to
.Dq dsdt.hex
in the build directory.
.El
.Sh SYSCTL SUPPORT
Few
.Xr sysctl 8
variables are directly relevant for
.Tn ACPI .
.Bl -tag -width "123456" -offset indent
.It Ic hw.acpi.root
The
.Tn ACPI
root pointer.
.It Ic hw.acpi.supported_states
A list of the
.Tn ACPI
sleep states that the machine supports.
The possible values are:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width XS1X -offset indent -compact
.It S0
fully running
.It S1
power on suspend (CPU and hard disks are off)
.It S2
similar to S3, usually not implemented
.It S3
suspend-to-RAM
.It S4
suspend-to-disk (not supported on
.Nx )
.It S5
power off
.El
.It Ic hw.acpi.stat.gpe
The number of dispatched General Purpose Events
.Pq Tn GPEs .
.It Ic hw.acpi.stat.sci
The number of System Control Interrupts
.Pq Tn SCIs .
See
.Xr acpiec 4
for a brief description of both
.Tn GPEs
and
.Tn SCIs .
.It Ic hw.acpi.stat.fixed
The number of
.Dq fixed events .
.It Ic hw.acpi.stat.method
The number of
.Tn ACPI
methods executed by the interpreter.
.It Ic machdep.acpi_beep_on_reset
A boolean variable that controls whether the
.Tn PC
speaker beeps upon resume.
.It Ic machdep.acpi_vbios_reset
Defines the handling of the graphics card.
The supported values are:
.Bl -tag -width '2' -offset indent
.It 0
No attempt to reset the
.Tn VGA
controller will be made.
.It 1
Call the
.Tn VGA
.Tn BIOS
when still in real mode.
This can result in direct reboots.
In that case, use
.Sq 2
or
.Ic vbetool post
from the
.Pa pkgsrc/sysutils/vbetool
package.
.It 2
Call the
.Tn VGA
.Tn BIOS
using the in-kernel x86 emulator.
.El
.El
.Sh SUPPORTED DEVICES
.Nx
.Tn ACPI
supports several machine-dependent and machine-independent devices:
.Ss Machine-independent devices
.Bl -tag -width pcdisplay -offset indent -compact
.It acpiacad
.Tn ACPI
AC adapters.
.It acpibat
.Tn ACPI
Control Method Batteries.
.It acpibut
.Tn ACPI
power and sleep buttons.
.It acpidalb
.Tn ACPI
Direction Application Launch Buttons.
.It acpiec
.Tn ACPI
Embedded Controllers.
.It acpiecdt
.Tn ACPI
Embedded Controller Boot Resource Table.
.It acpilid
.Tn ACPI
lid switches.
.It acpismbus
.Tn ACPI
SMBus via Control Method Interface.
.It acpitz
.Tn ACPI
thermal zones.
.It acpiwmi
.Tn ACPI
support for Windows Management Instrumentation.
.It aibs
ASUSTeK AI Booster ACPI ATK0110 voltage, temperature and fan sensor.
.It asus
ASUS laptop hotkeys.
.It attimer
AT Timer.
.It com
NS8250-, NS16450-, and NS16550-based serial ports.
.It fdc
Floppy disk controllers.
.It hpet
High Precision Event Timer.
.It hpqlb
HP Quick Launch Buttons.
.It joy
Joystick/Game port interface.
.It lpt
Standard ISA parallel port interface.
.It mpu
Roland MPU-401 (compatible) MIDI UART.
.It pcppi
AT-style speaker sound.
.It thinkpad
IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad laptop device driver.
.It ug
Abit uGuru Hardware monitor.
.It vald
Toshiba Libretto device.
.It wb
Winbond W83L518D Integrated Media Reader.
.It wss
Windows Sound System-compatible sound cards based on the AD1848 and compatible chips.
.It ym
Yamaha OPL3-SA2 and OPL3-SA3 audio device driver.
.El
.Ss i386-dependent devices
.Bl -tag -width pcdisplay -offset indent -compact
.It npx
i386 numeric processing extension coprocessor.
.It pckbc
PC keyboard controllers.
.It sony
Sony Miscellaneous Controller
.It spic
Sony programmable I/O controller.
.El
.Sh DEBUGGING
Although the situation has become better over the years,
.Tn ACPI
is typically prone to various errors,
ranging from blatant flaws in the firmware to bugs in the implementation.
Before anything else, it is a good practice to upgrade the
.Tn BIOS
to the latest version available from the vendor.
.Pp
To ease the task of diagnosing and fixing different problems, the
.Tn ACPICA
reference implementation provides a rich
facility of different debugging methods.
In
.Nx
these are generally only available if the kernel has been compiled with the
.Tn ACPI_DEBUG
option.
.Ss CUSTOM DSDT
.Tn ACPI
interprets bytecode known as
.Tn ACPI
Machine Language
.Pq Tn AML ,
provided by the
.Tn BIOS
as a memory image during the system bootstrap.
Most of the
.Tn AML
relevant to
.Nm
is implemented in the so-called
Differentiated System Descriptor Table
.Pq Tn DSDT .
.Nx
provides support for overriding the default
.Tn DSDT
supplied by the
.Tn BIOS .
.Pp
The following steps can be used to override the
.Tn DSDT :
.Bl -enum -offset indent
.It
Dump the raw
.Tn DSDT
with
.Xr acpidump 8 .
.It
Disassemble the table with
.Xr iasl 8 .
.It
Modify the disassembled table.
.It
Compile the table with
.Xr iasl 8
using the option
.Ar \-tc .
.It
Either copy the
.Pq Pa *.hex
file to
.Bd -literal -offset indent
src/sys/dev/acpi/acpica/Osd/custom_dsdt.hex
.Ed
.Pp
or use the option
.Bd -literal -offset indent
ACPI_DSDT_FILE="/some/directory/custom_dsdt.hex"
.Ed
.Pp
in the kernel configuration file.
.It
Define
.Tn ACPI_DSDT_OVERRIDE
in the kernel configuration file and rebuild.
.El
.Ss DEBUGGER
The
.Tn ACPICA
interpreter provides its own debugger for low-level debugging.
It can be used to display internal data structures and namespace objects,
and to debug the execution of control methods.
Single step and breakpoint functionality are available.
In
.Nx
this is integrated to the in-kernel
.Xr ddb 4 .
In order to enter the
.Tn ACPICA
debugger from
.Xr ddb 4 ,
use the command
.Ic call
with the argument
.Ic acpi_osd_debugger .
.Ss DEBUG OUTPUT
.Nx
provides two
.Xr sysctl 8
variables that control the debug output at runtime.
The
.Ic hw.acpi.debug.layer
limits the output to a specific
.Tn ACPI
layer and the
.Ic hw.acpi.debug.level
controls the debug level.
Both
.Xr sysctl 8
variables are string literals.
.Pp
The possible values are:
.Bl -column -offset indent \
"ACPI_RESOURCE_COMPONENT     " "ACPI_RESOURCE_COMPONENT     "
.It Sy LAYER Ta Sy LEVEL
.It Li ACPI_DEBUG_NONE Ta ACPI_DEBUG_NONE
.It Ta
.It Li ACPI_UTILITIES Ta ACPI_LV_INIT
.It Li ACPI_HARDWARE Ta ACPI_LV_DEBUG_OBJECT
.It Li ACPI_EVENTS Ta ACPI_LV_INFO
.It Li ACPI_TABLES Ta ACPI_LV_ALL_EXCEPTIONS *
.It Li ACPI_NAMESPACE Ta
.It Li ACPI_PARSER Ta ACPI_LV_INIT_NAMES
.It Li ACPI_DISPATCHER Ta ACPI_LV_PARSE
.It Li ACPI_EXECUTER Ta ACPI_LV_LOAD
.It Li ACPI_RESOURCES Ta ACPI_LV_DISPATCH
.It Li ACPI_CA_DEBUGGER Ta ACPI_LV_EXEC
.It Li ACPI_OS_SERVICES Ta ACPI_LV_NAMES
.It Li ACPI_CA_DISASSEMBLER Ta ACPI_LV_OPREGION
.It Li ACPI_COMPILER Ta ACPI_LV_BFIELD
.It Li ACPI_TOOLS Ta ACPI_LV_TABLES
.It Li ACPI_EXAMPLE Ta ACPI_LV_VALUES
.It Li ACPI_DRIVER Ta ACPI_LV_OBJECTS
.It Li ACPI_ALL_COMPONENTS * Ta ACPI_LV_RESOURCES
.It Ta ACPI_LV_USER_REQUESTS
.It Li ACPI_BUS_COMPONENT Ta ACPI_LV_PACKAGE
.It Li ACPI_ACAD_COMPONENT Ta ACPI_LV_VERBOSITY1 *
.It Li ACPI_BAT_COMPONENT Ta
.It Li ACPI_BUTTON_COMPONENT Ta ACPI_LV_ALLOCATIONS
.It Li APCI_EC_COMPONENT Ta ACPI_LV_FUNCTIONS
.It Li ACPI_LID_COMPONENT Ta ACPI_LV_OPTIMIZATIONS
.It Li ACPI_RESOURCE_COMPONENT Ta ACPI_LV_VERBOSITY2 *
.It Li ACPI_TZ_COMPONENT Ta
.It Li ACPI_ALL_DRIVERS * Ta ACPI_LV_MUTEX
.It Ta ACPI_LV_THREADS
.It Ta ACPI_LV_IO
.It Ta ACPI_LV_AML_INTERRUPTS
.It Li "* This is a compound" Ta ACPI_LV_VERBOSITY3 *
.It Li "  constant, including" Ta
.It Li "  all previous elements." Ta ACPI_LV_AML_DISASSEMBLE
.It Ta ACPI_LV_VERBOSE_INFO
.It Ta ACPI_LV_FULL_TABLES
.It Ta ACPI_LV_EVENTS
.It Ta ACPI_LV_VERBOSE *
.El
.Pp
In addition, there is
.Dv ACPI_DEBUG_DEFAULT
that is used by
.Tn ACPICA
as the default debug level.
It includes
.Dv ACPI_LV_INIT
and
.Dv ACPI_LV_DEBUG_OBJECT .
.Pp
The debug layer can be divided into two groups:
the first one is specific to the
.Tn ACPICA
interpreter and the second one contains the internal
.Tn ACPI
components of
.Nx .
The constant
.Dv ACPI_ALL_DRIVERS
includes all
.Nx
specific parts.
.Pp
The
.Tn ACPICA
interpreter uses several debug levels internally,
but the
.Nx
specific parts are typically limited to
.Dv ACPI_LV_DEBUG_OBJECT
and
.Dv ACPI_LV_DEBUG_INFO .
The debug output can be stopped by setting
.Ic hw.acpi.debug.level
to
.Dv ACPI_DEBUG_NONE .
.Ss EXAMPLE
As an example, a driver may have defined the component it belongs to and
the name of the module:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
#define _COMPONENT	ACPI_BUS_COMPONENT
ACPI_MODULE_NAME	("acpi_example")
.Ed
.Pp
The driver may also utilize the debug facility:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, "Failed to evaluate _STA\\n"));
.Ed
.Pp
With these options the debug message from the
.Dv ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT
macro is only visible when
.Ic hw.acpi.debug.layer
is either
.Dv ACPI_BUS_COMPONENT
or a compound constant including it, and
.Ic hw.acpi.debug.level
is
.Dv ACPI_LV_INFO
or some constant that includes it.
Finally, it can be noted that the
.Tn ACPI
implementation uses the prefix
.Dv ACPI_DB ,
whereas the debug level
.Xr sysctl 8
variable is always specified with the prefix
.Dv ACPI_LV .
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr acpiacad 4 ,
.Xr acpibat 4 ,
.Xr acpibut 4 ,
.Xr acpidalb 4 ,
.Xr acpiec 4 ,
.Xr acpilid 4 ,
.Xr acpismbus 4 ,
.Xr acpitz 4 ,
.Xr acpiwmi 4 ,
.Xr aibs 4 ,
.Xr apm 4 ,
.Xr attimer 4 ,
.Xr com 4 ,
.Xr fdc 4 ,
.Xr hpqlb 4 ,
.Xr joy 4 ,
.Xr lpt 4 ,
.Xr mpu 4 ,
.Xr npx 4 ,
.Xr pci 4 ,
.Xr pckbc 4 ,
.Xr pcppi 4 ,
.Xr sony 4 ,
.Xr spic 4 ,
.Xr thinkpad 4 ,
.Xr ug 4 ,
.Xr vald 4 ,
.Xr wb 4 ,
.Xr wss 4 ,
.Xr ym 4 ,
.Xr acpidump 8 ,
.Xr amldb 8 ,
.Xr iasl 8
.Rs
.%A Hewlett-Packard Corporation
.%A Intel Corporation
.%A Microsoft Corporation
.%A Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
.%A Toshiba Corporation
.%T Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Specification
.%N Revision 4.0
.%D June 16, 2009
.%U http://www.acpi.info/spec.htm
.Re
.Rs
.%A Intel Corporation
.%T ACPI Component Architecture,
.%T Programmer Reference,
.%T OS-Independent Subsystem, Debugger, and Utilities
.%N Revision 1.27
.%D January 20, 2010
.%U http://www.acpica.org/download/acpica-reference.pdf
.Re
.Rs
.%A Joerg Sonnenberger
.%A Jared D. McNeill
.%T Sleeping Beauty - NetBSD on Modern Laptops
.%D February 3, 2008
.%O Proceedings of AsiaBSDCon 2008
.%P pp. 127-134
.Re
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
driver
appeared in
.Nx 1.6 .
.Sh BUGS
Most of the
.Tn ACPI
power management functionalities are not implemented.