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RSS acpiHot-Plug PCI and Windows - ARCHIVE
White Paper To take advantage of Hot-Plug PCI support on Windows operating systems, manufacturers of hot-pluggable PCI devices and Hot-Plug PCI controllers should develop standard Plug and Play drivers for their devices, and implement insertion and removal... [03 Jul 2008]
Maximizing Windows Server 2003 on HP Servers
White Paper Specific attention will be paid to the differences in functionality that can be expected when implementing Windows Server 2003 on platforms that do not include some of the requisite technologies (PXE, Wake-On LAN, ACPI, PCI 2.2). [03 Jul 2008]
ACPI in Linux - Myths Vs. Reality
White Paper Major Linux distributors have been shipping ACPI in Linux for several years, yet mis-perceptions about ACPI persist in the Linux community. This paper addresses the most common myths about ACPI in Linux. [12 Jun 2008]
Extended PSS ACPI Method Specification
White Paper The Extended PSS (XPSS) method is an ACPI method that allows platform firmware to generically describe a Model Specific Register (MSR)-based interface for processor performance state controls. This enables the use of the generic processor driver... [03 Apr 2008]
ACPI Driver Interface in Windows Vista
White Paper Kernel-mode device drivers are able to evaluate ACPI control methods via I/O ConTroL Codes (IOCTLs). Typically, a driver evaluates ACPI control methods to initiate or configure platform-specific functionality. [29 Mar 2008]
Chapter 2: Power Management History and Motivation
White Paper Inventors of early power management technologies failed to understand the importance of centralized decision-making in the power management architecture, but were successful in creating the technology foundation for Advanced Configuration and... [15 Sep 2007]
Processor Power Management in Windows Vista and Windows Server Longhorn
White Paper Windows Vista and Windows Server Code Name "Longhorn" include updated support for ACPI Processor Power Management (PPM) features, including support for processor performance states and processor idle sleep states on multiprocessor systems. [18 May 2007]
The State of ACPI in the Linux Kernel
White Paper ACPI puts Linux in control of configuration and power management. This paper starts with some background on the ACPI specification, followed by the state of ACPI deployment on Linux. It describes the implementation architecture of ACPI on Linux... [03 Apr 2007]
Easier Custom Button and LED Integration
White Paper This presentation explains how to implement a standardized custom button and LED interface using an Embedded Controller and ACPI BIOS. The presentation explains how to easily configure different system SKUs using only one driver image and provides... [04 Nov 2006]
Brightness Control in WDDM
White Paper This white paper provides detailed information about the required capabilities for the Microsoft Windows Vista Display Driver Model (WDDM) driver and the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) BIOS in order to support brightness control... [07 Sep 2006]
Power Management of USB Host Controllers
White Paper The ACPI driver optionally modifies these capabilities before handing them to the host controller drivers. This paper provides information about power capabilities of USB 2.0 host controllers. It outlines the procedure for defining capabilities and... [16 Oct 2004]
CardBus Controllers and Windows Compatibility
White Paper This article describes compatibility issues related to CardBus controllers for Microsoft® Windows® operating systems, including ACPI and BIOS support issues for CardBus, how CardBus controllers are configured by Windows 2000 and the next release... [25 Feb 2004]
PCI IRQ Routing on a Multiprocessor ACPI System
White Paper The purpose of this article is to describe what is required for PCI interrupt request (IRQ) routing on a multiprocessor (MP) ACPI machine. This article contains the following information: A discussion of the parts of the ACPI specification that are... [25 Feb 2004]
Hot-Plug PCI on Windows Operating Systems
White Paper Microsoft Windows 2000 and the next release of the Windows operating system, code-named Windows "Whistler," support Hot-Plug PCI through ACPI. To take advantage of Hot-Plug PCI support on Windows operating systems, manufacturers of hot-pluggable... [25 Feb 2004]
PCI Subsystem IDs and PCI-to-PCI Bridge Devices
White Paper On power-managed APM or ACPI platforms, PCI devices are enumerated not only at power-on time but also each time the platform resumes from a suspended (deep system sleep) state. Some combinations of types of PCI-to-PCI bridges and PCI devices on the... [25 Feb 2004]
