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/hotplug/
23 Contact: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
25 There are separate hotplug profiles for different classes of
26 devices supported by ACPI, such as containers, memory modules,
27 processors, PCI root bridges etc. A hotplug profile for a given
28 class of devices is a collection of settings defining the way
29 that class of devices will be handled by the ACPI core hotplug
30 code. Those profiles are represented in sysfs as subdirectories
31 of /sys/firmware/acpi/hotplug/.
33 The following setting is available to user space for each
36 enabled: If set, the ACPI core will handle notifications of
37 hotplug events associated with the given class of
38 devices and will allow those devices to be ejected with
39 the help of the _EJ0 control method. Unsetting it
40 effectively disables hotplug for the correspoinding
43 The value of the above attribute is an integer number: 1 (set)
44 or 0 (unset). Attempts to write any other values to it will
45 cause -EINVAL to be returned.
47 What: /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/
49 Contact: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
51 All ACPI interrupts are handled via a single IRQ,
52 the System Control Interrupt (SCI), which appears
53 as "acpi" in /proc/interrupts.
55 However, one of the main functions of ACPI is to make
56 the platform understand random hardware without
57 special driver support. So while the SCI handles a few
58 well known (fixed feature) interrupts sources, such
59 as the power button, it can also handle a variable
60 number of a "General Purpose Events" (GPE).
62 A GPE vectors to a specified handler in AML, which
63 can do a anything the BIOS writer wants from
64 OS context. GPE 0x12, for example, would vector
65 to a level or edge handler called _L12 or _E12.
66 The handler may do its business and return.
67 Or the handler may send send a Notify event
68 to a Linux device driver registered on an ACPI device,
69 such as a battery, or a processor.
71 To figure out where all the SCI's are coming from,
72 /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts contains a file listing
73 every possible source, and the count of how many
74 times it has triggered.
76 $ cd /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts
120 sci - The number of times the ACPI SCI
121 has been called and claimed an interrupt.
123 sci_not - The number of times the ACPI SCI
124 has been called and NOT claimed an interrupt.
126 gpe_all - count of SCI caused by GPEs.
128 gpeXX - count for individual GPE source
130 ff_gbl_lock - Global Lock
132 ff_pmtimer - PM Timer
134 ff_pwr_btn - Power Button
136 ff_rt_clk - Real Time Clock
138 ff_slp_btn - Sleep Button
140 error - an interrupt that can't be accounted for above.
142 invalid: it's either a GPE or a Fixed Event that
143 doesn't have an event handler.
145 disable: the GPE/Fixed Event is valid but disabled.
147 enable: the GPE/Fixed Event is valid and enabled.
149 Root has permission to clear any of these counters. Eg.
152 All counters can be cleared by clearing the total "sci":
155 None of these counters has an effect on the function
156 of the system, they are simply statistics.
158 Besides this, user can also write specific strings to these files
159 to enable/disable/clear ACPI interrupts in user space, which can be
160 used to debug some ACPI interrupt storm issues.
162 Note that only writing to VALID GPE/Fixed Event is allowed,
163 i.e. user can only change the status of runtime GPE and
164 Fixed Event with event handler installed.
166 Let's take power button fixed event for example, please kill acpid
167 and other user space applications so that the machine won't shutdown
168 when pressing the power button.
171 # press the power button for 3 times;
174 # echo disable > ff_pwr_btn
177 # press the power button for 3 times;
180 # echo enable > ff_pwr_btn
184 * this is because the status bit is set even if the enable bit is cleared,
185 * and it triggers an ACPI fixed event when the enable bit is set again
187 # press the power button for 3 times;
190 # echo disable > ff_pwr_btn
191 # press the power button for 3 times;
192 # echo clear > ff_pwr_btn /* clear the status bit */
193 # echo disable > ff_pwr_btn