ACPI Advanced Configuration & Power Interface

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The ACPI Specification - Revision 3.0b Now available for download! ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) is an open industry specification co-developed by Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Microsoft, Phoenix, and Toshiba. ACPI establishes industry-standard interfaces enabling OS-directed configuration, power management, and thermal management of mobile, desktop, and server platforms. When first published in 1999, ACPI evolved an existing collection of power management BIOS code, Advanced Power Management (APM) application programming interfaces (APIs), PNPBIOS APIs, and Multiprocessor Specification (MPS) tables into a well-defined power management and configuration interface specification. The specification enables new power management technologies to evolve independently in operating systems and hardware while ensuring that they continue to work together. Previous ACPI technical information: ADVANCED CONFIGURATION AND POWER INTERFACE SPECIFICATION 3.0a ADVANCED CONFIGURATION AND POWER INTERFACE SPECIFICATION 3.0 ADVANCED CONFIGURATION AND POWER INTERFACE SPECIFICATION 2.0c ADVANCED CONFIGURATION AND POWER INTERFACE SPECIFICATION 2.0b ADVANCED CONFIGURATION AND POWER INTERFACE SPECIFICATION 2.0a ADVANCED CONFIGURATION AND POWER INTERFACE SPECIFICATION 2.0 and Errata ADVANCED CONFIGURATION AND POWER INTERFACE SPECIFICATION 1.0b ACPI Promoters Web Sites: Intel ACPI Related Links: Instantly Available Technology Intel ACPI Component Architecture (ACPI CA) Microsoft Windows Implementation: ACPI and OnNow web site Windows Driver Development Kits WinPower Mail List Phoenix Technologies ACPI related link: ACPI support in PhoenixBIOS File Date: October 10, 2006