1 What: /sys/firmware/acpi/bgrt/
3 Contact: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
5 The BGRT is an ACPI 5.0 feature that allows the OS
6 to obtain a copy of the firmware boot splash and
7 some associated metadata. This is intended to be used
8 by boot splash applications in order to interact with
9 the firmware boot splash in order to avoid jarring
12 image: The image bitmap. Currently a 32-bit BMP.
13 status: 1 if the image is valid, 0 if firmware invalidated it.
14 type: 0 indicates image is in BMP format.
15 version: The version of the BGRT. Currently 1.
16 xoffset: The number of pixels between the left of the screen
17 and the left edge of the image.
18 yoffset: The number of pixels between the top of the screen
19 and the top edge of the image.
21 What: /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/
23 Contact: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
25 All ACPI interrupts are handled via a single IRQ,
26 the System Control Interrupt (SCI), which appears
27 as "acpi" in /proc/interrupts.
29 However, one of the main functions of ACPI is to make
30 the platform understand random hardware without
31 special driver support. So while the SCI handles a few
32 well known (fixed feature) interrupts sources, such
33 as the power button, it can also handle a variable
34 number of a "General Purpose Events" (GPE).
36 A GPE vectors to a specified handler in AML, which
37 can do a anything the BIOS writer wants from
38 OS context. GPE 0x12, for example, would vector
39 to a level or edge handler called _L12 or _E12.
40 The handler may do its business and return.
41 Or the handler may send send a Notify event
42 to a Linux device driver registered on an ACPI device,
43 such as a battery, or a processor.
45 To figure out where all the SCI's are coming from,
46 /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts contains a file listing
47 every possible source, and the count of how many
48 times it has triggered.
50 $ cd /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts
94 sci - The number of times the ACPI SCI
95 has been called and claimed an interrupt.
97 sci_not - The number of times the ACPI SCI
98 has been called and NOT claimed an interrupt.
100 gpe_all - count of SCI caused by GPEs.
102 gpeXX - count for individual GPE source
104 ff_gbl_lock - Global Lock
106 ff_pmtimer - PM Timer
108 ff_pwr_btn - Power Button
110 ff_rt_clk - Real Time Clock
112 ff_slp_btn - Sleep Button
114 error - an interrupt that can't be accounted for above.
116 invalid: it's either a GPE or a Fixed Event that
117 doesn't have an event handler.
119 disable: the GPE/Fixed Event is valid but disabled.
121 enable: the GPE/Fixed Event is valid and enabled.
123 Root has permission to clear any of these counters. Eg.
126 All counters can be cleared by clearing the total "sci":
129 None of these counters has an effect on the function
130 of the system, they are simply statistics.
132 Besides this, user can also write specific strings to these files
133 to enable/disable/clear ACPI interrupts in user space, which can be
134 used to debug some ACPI interrupt storm issues.
136 Note that only writting to VALID GPE/Fixed Event is allowed,
137 i.e. user can only change the status of runtime GPE and
138 Fixed Event with event handler installed.
140 Let's take power button fixed event for example, please kill acpid
141 and other user space applications so that the machine won't shutdown
142 when pressing the power button.
145 # press the power button for 3 times;
148 # echo disable > ff_pwr_btn
151 # press the power button for 3 times;
154 # echo enable > ff_pwr_btn
158 * this is because the status bit is set even if the enable bit is cleared,
159 * and it triggers an ACPI fixed event when the enable bit is set again
161 # press the power button for 3 times;
164 # echo disable > ff_pwr_btn
165 # press the power button for 3 times;
166 # echo clear > ff_pwr_btn /* clear the status bit */
167 # echo disable > ff_pwr_btn