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Suggested readings about ACPI

DISCUSSION Ozan Çağlayan 3 participants 3 messages Jan 16, 2011 – Jan 17, 2011 ACPI

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Hi,

I want to get my hands dirty about ACPI and ACPI on Linux. I started reading the spec but I don't know how far can I progress with it :)

I also found some driver examples for ACPI and WMI on LWN. There's Colin Ian King's blog which seems very rich in terms of debugging.

Any other suggestions, readings, guidings, do's and dont-do's would be very much appreciated.

Thanks,

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Hi,

I want to get my hands dirty about ACPI and ACPI on Linux. I started reading the spec but I don't know how far can I progress with it :)

Try starting with version 1.0 of the spec - the core functionality hasn't changed much, and it's *much* shorter than the current version.

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I also found some driver examples for ACPI and WMI on LWN. There's Colin Ian King's blog which seems very rich in terms of debugging.

Any other suggestions, readings, guidings, do's and dont-do's would be very much appreciated.

I haven't seen any good introductory guides to ACPI, but I've presented on it often enough now that it might be worth me writing one.

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I want to get my hands dirty about ACPI and ACPI on Linux. I started reading the spec but I don't know how far can I progress with it :)

Try starting with version 1.0 of the spec - the core functionality hasn't changed much, and it's *much* shorter than the current version.

Good suggestion.

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I also found some driver examples for ACPI and WMI on LWN. There's Colin Ian King's blog which seems very rich in terms of debugging.

Any other suggestions, readings, guidings, do's and dont-do's would be very much appreciated.

http://www.acpica.org/
http://lesswatts.org/projects/acpi/

each has a couple of references that may be useful.

cheers,
Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center