From 362b646062b2073bd5c38efb42171d86e4f717e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Renninger Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 03:33:46 +0100 Subject: ACPI: Export FADT pm_profile integer value to userspace There are a lot userspace approaches to detect the usage of the platform (laptop, workstation, server, ...) and adjust kernel tunables accordingly (io/process scheduler, power management, ...). These approaches need constant maintaining and are ugly to implement (detect PCMCIA controller -> laptop, does not work on recent systems anymore, ...) On ACPI systems there is an easy and reliable way (if implemented in BIOS and most recent platforms have this value set). -> export it to userspace. Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Signed-off-by: Len Brown --- Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-acpi-pmprofile | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-acpi-pmprofile (limited to 'Documentation/ABI/stable') diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-acpi-pmprofile b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-acpi-pmprofile new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..964c7a8afb26 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-acpi-pmprofile @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +What: /sys/firmware/acpi/pm_profile +Date: 03-Nov-2011 +KernelVersion: v3.2 +Contact: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org +Description: The ACPI pm_profile sysfs interface exports the platform + power management (and performance) requirement expectations + as provided by BIOS. The integer value is directly passed as + retrieved from the FADT ACPI table. +Values: For possible values see ACPI specification: + 5.2.9 Fixed ACPI Description Table (FADT) + Field: Preferred_PM_Profile + + Currently these values are defined by spec: + 0 Unspecified + 1 Desktop + 2 Mobile + 3 Workstation + 4 Enterprise Server + 5 SOHO Server + 6 Appliance PC + 7 Performance Server + >7 Reserved -- cgit v1.2.3