Modern System Power Management

  • Authors:
  • Andrew Grover

  • Affiliations:
  • Intel's Mobile Products Group

  • Venue:
  • Queue - Power Management
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) is the most widely used power and configuration interface for laptops, desktops, and server systems. It is also very complex, and its current specification weighs in at more than 500 pages. Needless to say, operating systems that choose to support ACPI require significant additional software support, up to and including fundamental OS architecture changes. The effort that ACPI's definition and implementation has entailed is worth the trouble because of how much flexibility it gives to the OS (and ultimately the user) to control power management policy and implementation.