Check out the new USENIX Web site. next up previous
Next: Our ACPI Core Software Up: ACPI implementation on FreeBSD Previous: ACPI Component Architecture (ACPI-CA)


Design of FreeBSD ACPI

In this section we describe how we made the FreeBSD kernel ACPI-aware. We first implemented our own version of the ACPI core software (we later switched to ACPI-CA). We then addressed the issues of ACPI device enumeration, supporting ACPI sleep modes, and ACPI thermal management.



Subsections

Takanori Watanabe 2002-04-13