Welcome to the ACPI Project on Netlabs

This is the development and support home for ACPI Project.

This page is in v0.0.1 format. Many of the links on this page do not yet go anywhere useful. This will get better over time.

The current ACPI driver release is version 3.18.

The next ACPI version release milestone is Release version 3.19.

Submitting Tickets

You must be logged into TRAC to create tickets. Please login with your Netlabs login id.

If you do not have a login id, you can request one at ​http://www.netlabs.org/en/site/member/member.xml.

If you have troubles acquiring a Netlabs login id send an e-mail to

Netlabs Community Mailing List

If you have open tickets created with the guest login, please add a comment to the ticket showing your new login and we will update the ticket so that you automatically receive e-mail when your open tickets are updated.

Before entering a ticket, please download testlog from ​http://www.88watts.net/software.html

Run "testlog acpi" and attach the generated ZIP file to your ticket.

Milestones and Versions

When entering tickets, you will be asked to provide a version and a milestone.

The ​TRAC documentation defines these terms as

• Version - Version of the project that this ticket pertains to.
• Milestone - When this issue should be resolved at the latest.

For new tickets, the version will default to current ACPI version (i.e. 3.19.02). If you are reporting for some other version, please override the default. If you are opening the ticket for testcase release, please note the testcase version in the ticket summmary.

The milestone will default to the next scheduled ACPI version release (i.e. 3.15).

Genernally, once a ticket is opened, the version should not be changed. If the issue is not resolved, the milestone will be changed to reflect when the ticket is expected to be resolved.

Users

The ​ACPI FAQ contains answers to your questions.

See Getting the most from ACPI for hints from the power users.

The ​ACPI Tools page contains a wealth of information and links.

Currently, ​ACPI Switches by System is probably the best place to go to check if your motherboard or system is already supported by the ACPI driver.

Eventually, this information will be integrated into the​Compatible Systems database. The information will also be available sorted by ​brand.

Binaries

New releases and testcase builds are available from the eComStation BetaZone. Log in to ​Mensys with your Mensys login id and click the Downloads link. Click the "Software Subscription Services for eComStation" Download link and the ACPI drivers should be listed.

You can access the BetaZone from your [www.ecomstation.com eComStation] login, but the ACPI download may not appear

New releases are announced on the mailing list and elsewhere.

Mailing List

As you might have suspected, ACPI is a Netlabs project. The project URL is ACPI

The support mailing list is at ​ACPI Mailing List

If you can't see the mailto link, you are not logged in.

To subscribe to the mailing list, send a message to ​Subscribe to ACPI Mailing List. The subject and body can be empty. You will receive a response which you must reply to to complete the process.

These lists are ​EzMLM mailing lists. If you need help subscribing, see ​Netlabs Mailing Lists. ​http://local.88watts.net/software.html

Application / Driver Developers

A toolkit is available for using ACPI services. Applications can link to acpi32.lib and drivers can link to acpidrv.lib. These libraries and header files are included in the toolkit. Sample programs and documentation are provided as well.

You can download the current toolkit here: ​acpi-toolkit-3.19.zip

ACPI Developers

Getting the sources

In addition to browsing the sources here, you can check out the sources with your favorite subversion client.

Keep in mind that, unlike ​cvs, tags and branches are ordinary directories in subversion. With the typical subversion respository layout, it is rather easy to checkout more than you probably intend to. To pull just the trunk version, use something like

mkdir acpi_workspace
cd acpi_workspace
svn checkout http://svn.netlabs.org/repos/acpi/trunk trunk

To update your workspace with the current rehttp://local.88watts.net/software.htmlpository content, use

cd acpi_workspace\trunk
svn update

Driver developers that wish to make their drivers ACPI compliant will find the ​ACPI toolkit useful.

Building

Those interested in building the ACPI drivers or submitting source code updates should see

Building the ACPI Drivers
ACPI Developers Coding Guide
ACPI Developers FAQ - coming soon

About ACPI

Credits

• Pavel (pasha) Shtemenko
• David Azarewicz
• Steven Levine
• Lars Erdmann

If we forgot anyone, please let us know. It was unintentional.