Intel® System Debugger User Guide

ID 648476
Date 06/13/2024
Confidential
Document Table of Contents

Debugging Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI)

Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) is a framework that forms a subsystem within the host OS and serves as an interface layer between the system firmware (BIOS) and the host OS. This framework establishes a hardware register set to define power states (sleep, hibernate, wake, etc). As a result, the standart ACPI framework and the hardware register set enable power management and system configuration without directly calling firmware natively from the OS.

WinDbg* over the Intel(R) Direct Connect Interface (Intel(R) DCI) enables using the Microsoft* AMLI Debugger to debug Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) Machine Language (AML) code. With WinDbg* over Intel(R) DCI, the Microsoft* AMLI Debugger is used as an extension to a native kernel debugger.

For more information about the framework structure, refer to the ACPI documentation.