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ACPI core support is provided by the ACPI CA reference implementation from Intel. .Pp Note that the .Nm driver is automatically loaded by the .Xr loader 8 , and should only be compiled into the kernel on platforms where ACPI is mandatory. .Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES The .Nm 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 .Nm behavior. .Bl -tag -width indent .It Va hw.acpi.acline AC line state (1 means online, 0 means on battery power). .It Va hw.acpi.cpu.cx_usage Debugging information listing the percent of total usage for each sleep state. The values are reset when .Va hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest is modified. .It Va hw.acpi.cpu.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, .Va machdep.cpu_idle_hlt must be set to 1. .It Va 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. .It Va 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. .It Va hw.acpi.handle_reboot Use the ACPI Reset Register capability to reboot the system. Default is 0, use legacy reboot support. Some newer systems require use of this register, while some only work with legacy rebooting support. .It Va 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). .It Va hw.acpi.power_button_state Suspend state (S1-S5) to enter when the power button is pressed. Default is S5 (power-off nicely). .It Va 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). .It Va 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. .It Va 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). .It Va 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. .It Va hw.acpi.supported_sleep_state Suspend states (S1-S5) supported by the BIOS. .Bl -tag -width indent .It Va S1 Quick suspend to RAM. The CPU enters a lower power state but most peripherals are left running. .It Va S2 Lower power state than S1, but with the same basic characteristics. Not supported by many systems. .It Va S3 Suspend to RAM. Most devices are powered off and the system stops running except for memory refresh. .It Va 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 .Fx unless S4BIOS is available. .It Va S5 System shuts down cleanly and powers off. .El .It Va hw.acpi.verbose Enable verbose printing from the various ACPI subsystems. .El .Sh LOADER TUNABLES Tunables can be set at the .Xr loader 8 prompt before booting the kernel or stored in .Pa /boot/loader.conf . Many of these tunables also have a matching .Xr sysctl 8 entry for access after boot. .Bl -tag -width indent .It Va acpi_dsdt_load Enables loading of a custom ACPI DSDT. .It Va acpi_dsdt_name Name of the DSDT table to load, if loading is enabled. .It Va debug.acpi.disabled Selectively disables portions of ACPI for debugging purposes. .It Va 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. .It Va debug.acpi.quirks Override any automatic quirks completely. .It Va debug.acpi.resume_beep Beep the PC speaker on resume. This can help diagnose suspend/resume problems. Default is 0 (disabled). .It Va 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. .It Va hw.acpi.ec.poll_timeout Delay in milliseconds to wait for the EC to respond. Try increasing this number if you get the error .Qq Li AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE . .It Va hw.acpi.host_mem_start Override the assumed memory starting address for PCI host bridges. .It Va 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). .It Va hw.acpi.serialize_methods Allow override of whether methods execute in parallel or not. Enable this for serial behavior, which fixes .Qq Li 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. .It Va hw.acpi.verbose Turn on verbose debugging information about what ACPI is doing. .It Va 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 .Nm enabled. .Qq %s is the name of the link (e.g., LNKA). .Qq %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. .It Va 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 .Nm enabled. .Qq %s is the name of the link (e.g., LNKA). .El .Sh DISABLING ACPI Since ACPI support on different platforms varies greatly, there are many debugging and tuning options available. .Pp For machines known not to work with .Nm enabled, there is a BIOS blacklist. Currently, the blacklist only controls whether .Nm should be disabled or not. In the future, it will have more granularity to control features (the infrastructure for that is already there). .Pp To enable .Nm (for debugging purposes, etc.) on machines that are on the blacklist, set the kernel environment variable .Va hint.acpi.0.disabled to 0. Before trying this, consider updating your BIOS to a more recent version that may be compatible with ACPI. .Pp To disable the .Nm driver completely, set the kernel environment variable .Va hint.acpi.0.disabled to 1. .Pp 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. .Pp The .Nm 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 .Va debug.acpi.disabled . Multiple entries can be listed, separated by a space. .Pp ACPI sub-devices and features that can be disabled: .Bl -tag -width ".Li sysresource" .It Li all Disable all ACPI features and devices. .It Li acad .Pq Vt device Supports AC adapter. .It Li bus .Pq Vt feature Probes and attaches subdevices. Disabling will avoid scanning the ACPI namespace entirely. .It Li children .Pq Vt feature Attaches standard ACPI sub-drivers and devices enumerated in the ACPI namespace. Disabling this has a similar effect to disabling .Dq Li bus , except that the ACPI namespace will still be scanned. .It Li button .Pq Vt device Supports ACPI button devices (typically power and sleep buttons). .It Li cmbat .Pq Vt device Control-method batteries device. .It Li cpu .Pq Vt device Supports CPU power-saving and speed-setting functions. .It Li ec .Pq Vt device Supports the ACPI Embedded Controller interface, used to communicate with embedded platform controllers. .It Li isa .Pq Vt device Supports an ISA bus bridge defined in the ACPI namespace, typically as a child of a PCI bus. .It Li lid .Pq Vt device Supports an ACPI laptop lid switch, which typically puts a system to sleep. .It Li quirks .Pq Vt feature Do not honor quirks. Quirks automatically disable ACPI functionality based on the XSDT table's OEM vendor name and revision date. .It Li pci .Pq Vt device Supports Host to PCI bridges. .It Li pci_link .Pq Vt feature Performs PCI interrupt routing. .It Li sysresource .Pq Vt device Pseudo-devices containing resources which ACPI claims. .It Li thermal .Pq Vt device Supports system cooling and heat management. .It Li timer .Pq Vt device Implements a timecounter using the ACPI fixed-frequency timer. .It Li video .Pq Vt device Supports .Xr acpi_video 4 which may conflict with .Xr agp 4 device. .El .Pp 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 .Va 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. .Sh DEBUGGING OUTPUT To enable debugging output, .Nm must be compiled with .Cd "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. .Pp Both layers and levels are specified as a whitespace-separated list of tokens, with layers listed in .Va debug.acpi.layer and levels in .Va debug.acpi.level . .Pp The first set of layers is for ACPI-CA components, and the second is for .Fx drivers. The ACPI-CA layer descriptions include the prefix for the files they refer to. The supported layers are: .Pp .Bl -tag -compact -width ".Li ACPI_CA_DISASSEMBLER" .It Li ACPI_UTILITIES Utility ("ut") functions .It Li ACPI_HARDWARE Hardware access ("hw") .It Li ACPI_EVENTS Event and GPE ("ev") .It Li ACPI_TABLES Table access ("tb") .It Li ACPI_NAMESPACE Namespace evaluation ("ns") .It Li ACPI_PARSER AML parser ("ps") .It Li ACPI_DISPATCHER Internal representation of interpreter state ("ds") .It Li ACPI_EXECUTER Execute AML methods ("ex") .It Li ACPI_RESOURCES Resource parsing ("rs") .It Li ACPI_CA_DEBUGGER Debugger implementation ("db", "dm") .It Li ACPI_OS_SERVICES Usermode support routines ("os") .It Li ACPI_CA_DISASSEMBLER Disassembler implementation (unused) .It Li ACPI_ALL_COMPONENTS All the above ACPI-CA components .It Li ACPI_AC_ADAPTER AC adapter driver .It Li ACPI_BATTERY Control-method battery driver .It Li ACPI_BUS ACPI, ISA, and PCI bus drivers .It Li ACPI_BUTTON Power and sleep button driver .It Li ACPI_EC Embedded controller driver .It Li ACPI_FAN Fan driver .It Li ACPI_OEM Platform-specific driver for hotkeys, LED, etc. .It Li ACPI_POWER Power resource driver .It Li ACPI_PROCESSOR CPU driver .It Li ACPI_THERMAL Thermal zone driver .It Li ACPI_TIMER Timer driver .It Li ACPI_ALL_DRIVERS All the above .Fx ACPI drivers .El .Pp The supported levels are: .Pp .Bl -tag -compact -width ".Li ACPI_LV_AML_DISASSEMBLE" .It Li ACPI_LV_ERROR Fatal error conditions .It Li ACPI_LV_WARN Warnings and potential problems .It Li ACPI_LV_INIT Initialization progress .It Li ACPI_LV_DEBUG_OBJECT Stores to objects .It Li ACPI_LV_INFO General information and progress .It Li ACPI_LV_ALL_EXCEPTIONS All the previous levels .It Li ACPI_LV_INIT_NAMES .It Li ACPI_LV_PARSE .It Li ACPI_LV_LOAD .It Li ACPI_LV_DISPATCH .It Li ACPI_LV_EXEC .It Li ACPI_LV_NAMES .It Li ACPI_LV_OPREGION .It Li ACPI_LV_BFIELD .It Li ACPI_LV_TABLES .It Li ACPI_LV_VALUES .It Li ACPI_LV_OBJECTS .It Li ACPI_LV_RESOURCES .It Li ACPI_LV_USER_REQUESTS .It Li ACPI_LV_PACKAGE .It Li ACPI_LV_VERBOSITY1 All the previous levels .It Li ACPI_LV_ALLOCATIONS .It Li ACPI_LV_FUNCTIONS .It Li ACPI_LV_OPTIMIZATIONS .It Li ACPI_LV_VERBOSITY2 .It Li ACPI_LV_ALL .It Li ACPI_LV_MUTEX .It Li ACPI_LV_THREADS .It Li ACPI_LV_IO .It Li ACPI_LV_INTERRUPTS .It Li ACPI_LV_VERBOSITY3 All the previous levels .It Li ACPI_LV_AML_DISASSEMBLE .It Li ACPI_LV_VERBOSE_INFO .It Li ACPI_LV_FULL_TABLES .It Li ACPI_LV_EVENTS .It Li ACPI_LV_VERBOSE All levels after .Qq Li ACPI_LV_VERBOSITY3 .El .Pp 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 .Nm driver, printing basic information about errors, warnings, and progress. .Bd -literal -offset indent debug.acpi.layer="ACPI_ALL_COMPONENTS ACPI_ALL_DRIVERS" debug.acpi.level="ACPI_LV_ALL_EXCEPTIONS" .Ed .Pp Debugging output by the ACPI CA subsystem is prefixed with the module name in lowercase, followed by a source line number. Output from the .Fx Ns -local code follows the same format, but the module name is uppercased. .Sh 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. .Fx 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. .Pp In order to load your AML code, you must edit .Pa /boot/loader.conf and include the following lines. .Bd -literal -offset indent acpi_dsdt_load="YES" acpi_dsdt_name="/boot/acpi_dsdt.aml" # You may change this name. .Ed .Pp In order to prepare your AML code, you will need the .Xr acpidump 8 and .Xr iasl 8 utilities and some ACPI knowledge. .Sh COMPATIBILITY ACPI is only found and supported on i386/ia32, ia64, and amd64. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr kenv 1 , .Xr acpi_thermal 4 , .Xr device.hints 5 , .Xr loader.conf 5 , .Xr acpiconf 8 , .Xr acpidump 8 , .Xr config 8 , .Xr iasl 8 .Rs .%A "Compaq Computer Corporation" .%A "Intel Corporation" .%A "Microsoft Corporation" .%A "Phoenix Technologies Ltd." .%A "Toshiba Corporation" .%D August 25, 2003 .%T "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Specification" .%O http://acpi.info/spec.htm .Re .Sh AUTHORS .An -nosplit The ACPI CA subsystem is developed and maintained by Intel Architecture Labs. .Pp The following people made notable contributions to the ACPI subsystem in .Fx : .An Michael Smith , .An Takanori Watanabe Aq takawata@jp.FreeBSD.org , .An Mitsuru IWASAKI Aq iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org , .An Munehiro Matsuda , .An Nate Lawson , the ACPI-jp mailing list at .Aq acpi-jp@jp.FreeBSD.org , and many other contributors. .Pp This manual page was written by .An Michael Smith Aq msmith@FreeBSD.org . .Sh BUGS If the .Nm driver is loaded as a module when it is already linked as part of the kernel, odd things may happen. .Pp 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's a problem with .Nm .