Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Specification

Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Specification
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ACPI Platform Error Interfaces (APEI)...................................................... 713
18.2 Relationship between OSPM and System Firmware .................................................. 714
18.3 Error Source Discovery............................................................................................... 714
18.3.1 Boot Error Source ........................................................................................... 714
18.3.2 ACPI Error Source .......................................................................................... 716
18.4 Firmware First Error Handling..................................................................................... 729
18.4.1 Example: Firmware First Handling Using NMI Notification ............................. 730
18.5 Error Serialization ....................................................................................................... 730
18.5.1 Serialization Action Table................................................................................ 731
18.5.2 Operations....................................................................................................... 737
18.6 Error Injection.............................................................................................................. 741
18.6.1 Error Injection Table (EINJ)............................................................................. 741
18.6.2 Injection Instruction Entries ............................................................................. 744
18.6.3 Injection Instructions ....................................................................................... 745
18.6.4 Trigger Action Table........................................................................................ 747
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ACPI Source Language (ASL)Reference.................................................. 751
19.1 ASL 2.0 Symbolic Operators and Expressions ........................................................... 751
19.2 ASL Language Grammar ............................................................................................ 752
19.2.1 ASL Grammar Notation................................................................................... 753
19.2.2 ASL Name and Pathname Terms ................................................................... 755
19.2.3 ASL Root and Secondary Terms .................................................................... 756
19.2.4 ASL Data and Constant Terms ....................................................................... 757
19.2.5 ASL Opcode Terms......................................................................................... 759
19.2.6 ASL Primary (Terminal) Terms ....................................................................... 761
19.2.7 ASL Parameter Keyword Terms ..................................................................... 776
19.2.8 ASL Resource Template Terms...................................................................... 778
19.3 ASL Concepts ............................................................................................................. 785
19.3.1 ASL Names ..................................................................................................... 785
19.3.2 ASL Literal Constants ..................................................................................... 786
19.3.3 ASL Resource Templates ............................................................................... 787
19.3.4 ASL Macros..................................................................................................... 789
19.3.5 ASL Data Types .............................................................................................. 789
19.4 ASL Operator Summary ............................................................................................. 801
19.5 ASL Operator Summary By Type .............................................................................. 805
19.6 ASL Operator Reference ........................................................................................... 809
19.6.1 AccessAs (Change Field Unit Access)............................................................ 809
19.6.2 Acquire (Acquire a Mutex)............................................................................... 810
19.6.3 Add (Integer Add)............................................................................................ 810
19.6.4 Alias (Declare Name Alias) ............................................................................. 811
19.6.5 And (Integer Bitwise And) ............................................................................... 811
19.6.6 Argx (Method Argument Data Objects) ........................................................... 811
19.6.7 BankField (Declare Bank/Data Field).............................................................. 812
19.6.8 Break (Break from While)................................................................................ 813
19.6.9 BreakPoint (Execution Break Point)................................................................ 813
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