acpi is a Rust library for interacting with the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface, a
complex framework for power management and device discovery and configuration. ACPI is used on
modern x64, as well as some ARM and RISC-V platforms. An operating system needs to interact with
ACPI to correctly set up a platform's interrupt controllers, perform power management, and fully
support many other platform capabilities.
This crate provides a limited API that can be used without an allocator, for example for use
from a bootloader. This API will allow you to search for the RSDP, enumerate over the available
tables, and interact with the tables using their raw structures. All other functionality is
behind an alloc feature (enabled by default) and requires an allocator.
With an allocator, this crate provides a richer higher-level interfaces to the static tables, as well as a dynamic interpreter for AML - the bytecode format encoded in the DSDT and SSDT tables.
See the library documentation for example usage. You will almost certainly need to read portions of the ACPI Specification too (however, be aware that firmware often ships with ACPI tables that are not spec-compliant).
This project is dual-licenced under:
- Apache Licence, Version 2.0 (LICENCE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
- MIT license (LICENCE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
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