Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Specification

Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Specification
System Management Bus See SMBus
System Management Interrupt See SMI
System Management Mode See SMM
System Status (_SST) control method 497
System Wake (_WAK) control method 415
T
tables
address format 106
compatibility 106
DSDT 136
embedded controller boot resources 156
encoding format 105
FACS 130
headers 102, 110
MADT 138, 165, 190
overview 101
RSDP 109
RSDT 115
SBST (Smart Battery Description) 155
signatures 111, 112
SSDT 137
Temperature (_TMP) control method 595, 619
temperature changes, detecting 596
temperature management See thermal management
Term Objects encoding, AML 911
terminology
design guides 6, 8
device power states 26
general 17
performance states 29
sleeping states 28
terms
AML 907
ASL notation 753
Thermal Constant 1 (_TC1) object 618
Thermal Constant 2 (_TC2) object 618
thermal management
control methods 607
energy conservation, optimizing 52
notification of temperature changes 597
objects 607
OSPM controlled 593
performance, optimizing 52
polling 596, 598
temperature changes, detecting 596
threshold settings, dynamically changing
595
trip points 597
Thermal Sampling Period (_TSP) object 621
thermal states, definition 24
Thermal Zone data type, ASL 790, 794
Thermal Zone Devices (_TZD) object 622
Thermal Zone Polling (_TZP) object 505, 537,
546, 622
thermal zones
basic configuration 624, 628
examples 624, 628
mobile PC example 51
multiple-speed fan example 626
object notification values 252
object requirements 623
ThermalZone (Declare Thermal Zone) 891
thirty-two bit fixed location memory range resource
descriptor format 353
thirty-two bit memory range resource descriptor
format 351
throttling 421, 462
THT_EN 91
Timer (Get 64-Bit Timer Value) 892
timers
global standby 66
idle 66
power management (PM) 66, 75
TMR- field 76
TMR_EN 88
TMR_STS 86, 488
TMR_VAL 90
ToBCD (Convert Integer to BCD) 892
ToBuffer (Convert Data to Buffer) 893
ToDecimalString (Convert Data to Decimal
String) 893
ToHexString (Convert Data to Hexadecimal
String) 893
ToInteger (Convert Data to Integer) 894
token ring adapters See network devices
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