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The Root System Description Table (RSDT) is the directory to all the other description tables, providing the operating system access to all the available ACPI data
RSDT is stored in the last 64KB below TOM.
Fixed ACPI Description Table (FADT)
Data in the FADT includes fixed-length entries describing the fixed ACPI features of the hardware
It also has the physical addresses of the Differentiated System Description Table (DSDT) and Firmware ACPI Control Structure (FACS)
Differentiated System Description Table (DSDT)
Differentiated Definition Block that contains implementation and configuration information beyond what's in the ACPI hardware registers the OSPM uses for power management, thermal management, or Plug and Play.
DSDT is a required table located at offset 0 in the segment from TOM-128K to TOM-64K
(TOM = top of memory)
RSDT--> FADT --> DSDT
SSDT—Secondary System Description Table
PSDT—Persistent System Description Table
The PSDT has been removed from the ACPI 2.0 specification
MADT—Multiple APIC Description Table
FACS—Firmware ACPI Control Structure
The FACS contains the system’s hardware signature at last boot, the firmware waking vector, and the global lock
When the system boots, OSPM uses the E820 BIOS call to obtain a system memory map
The BIOS should decide where the different memory structures belong and configure the E820 handler to return the appropriate values
For this example, the BIOS reports the system memory map by E820 as shown: Figure 1
The BIOS has set aside memory from the Top of Memory1 to Top of Memory2 as ACPI NVS Memory and Reserved Memory, and has marked both as reserved. A legacy operating system throws out the ACPI NVS Memory and marks this area as reserved memory, preventing the memory range from being allocated to any add-in device.
Operating System Loading
To see Figure 2
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