Suggested readings about ACPI

Suggested readings about ACPI

[Ozan Çağlayan]

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,
-- 
Pardus Linux
http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng

Re: Suggested readings about ACPI

[Matthew Garrett]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 11:46:21PM +0200, Ozan Çağlayan wrote:
> 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.

> 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.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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Re: Suggested readings about ACPI

[Len Brown]

> > 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.

> > 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