Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Specification

Introduction
specified below are generally spread throughout the ACPI specification. The ACPI specification
defines:
System address map reporting interfaces (Section 14)
ACPI System Description Tables (Section 5.2):
Root System Description Pointer (RSDP)
System Description Table Header
Root System Description Table (RSDT)
Fixed ACPI Description Table (FADT)
Firmware ACPI Control Structure (FACS)
Differentiated System Description Table (DSDT)
Secondary System Description Table (SSDT)
Multiple APIC Description Table (MADT)
Smart Battery Table (SBST)
Extended System Description Table (XSDT)
Embedded Controller Boot Resources Table (ECDT)
System Resource Affinity Table (SRAT)
System Locality Information Table (SLIT)
Corrected Platform Error Polling Table (CPEP)
Maximum System Characteristics Table (MSCT)
ACPI RAS FeatureTable (RASF)
Memory Power StateTable (MPST)
Platform Memory Topology Table (PMTT)
Boot Graphics Resource Table (BGRT)
Firmware Performance Data Table (FPDT)
Generic Timer Description Table (GTDT)
ACPI-defined Fixed Registers Interfaces (Section 4, Section 5.2.9):
Power management timer control/status
Power or sleep button with S5 override (also possible in generic space)
Real time clock wakeup alarm control/status
SCI /SMI routing control/status for Power Management and General-purpose events
System power state controls (sleeping/wake control) (Section 7)
Processor power state control (c states) (Section 8)
Processor throttling control/status (Section 8)
Processor performance state control/status (Section 8)
General-purpose event control/status
Global Lock control/status
System Reset control (Section 4.7.3.6)
Embedded Controller control/status (Section 12)
SMBus Host Controller (HC) control/status (Section 13)
Smart Battery Subsystem (Section 10.1)
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