The Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) specification was developed to establish industry common
interfaces enabling robust operating system (OS)-directed motherboard device configuration and power management
of both devices and entire systems. ACPI is the key element in Operating System-directed configuration and Power
Management (OSPM).
ACPI evolved the existing pre-ACPI collection of power management BIOS code, Advanced Power Management
(APM) application programming interfaces (APIs, PNPBIOS APIs, Multiprocessor Specification (MPS) tables and
so on into a well-defined power management and configuration interface specification. ACPI provides the means
for an orderly transition from existing (legacy) hardware to ACPI hardware, and it allows for both ACPI and legacy
mechanisms to exist in a single machine and to be used as needed.
Further, system architectures being built at the time of the original ACPI specificati
ACPI_SPEC_6.4_introduction
ACPI(高级配置和电源接口)规范旨在为操作系统提供主板设备配置和电源管理的行业通用接口。它统一了预ACPI的电源管理BIOS代码、高级电源管理API等,支持所有类型的计算机实现OSPM,促进系统节能通过将未使用的设备转换到低功耗状态。此文档描述了实现OSPM所需的ACPI硬件接口、软件接口和数据结构。
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