FIC A360 - Manual (Page 85)

Software Functional Overview
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FIC A360 Service Manual
GPIOA3 KB SMI event RI AML Handler
GPIOA6 PCMCIA Ring In RI AML Handler
GPIOA7 COM Port Ring In RI AML Handler
THRM Thermal Event GPI1 AML Handler
The system will issue a beep to inform user while the following SCI alerted:
AC (AC status change) update battery information.
Battery A (Power status change) update battery information.
Lid (Lid close /open event) update Lid position status.
RI10 COM Port Ring Event
PCMRI10 PCMCIA Ring Event
PME (Modem SCI) update system power status.
Control Method Battery Subsystem
EC should support all the battery information to ACPI-OS
− Designed Battery capacity
− Designed Voltage
− Designed Low battery capacity
− Designed Low – Low battery capacity
− Latest Full charged capacity
− Present Remaining capacity
− Present drain rate
− Present voltage
− Present Battery Status
ACPI BIOS should support an independent device object in the name space, and
implement the following methods.
3.5.12 Thermal Control
ACPI allows the OS to be proactive in its system cooling policies. With the OS in control of
the operating environment, cooling decisions can be made based on application load on the
CPU and the thermal heuristics of the system. Graceful shutdown of the OS at critical heat
levels becomes possible as well. The following sections describe the thermal objects available
to the OS to control platform temperature. ACPI expects all temperatures to be given in tenths
of Kelvin.
The ACPI thermal design is based around regions called thermal zones. Generally, the entire
PC is one large thermal zone, but an OEM can partition the system into several thermal zones
if necessary.