Sunil V L of Ventana Micro Systems today released a set of 24 Linux kernel patches that provide ACPI infrastructure support for RISC-V processor architectures.
Ventana was founded in 2018 to be the “RISC-V performance leader. The company today released a Linux kernel patch that enables Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) infrastructure on RISC-V processor architectures.
Ventana presented a presentation back in 2021 at the RISC-V Summit, which contained a wealth of technical information. The presentation also covered the upstream RISC-V ACPI platform specification, which meets the ACPI requirements for the RISC-V server platform.
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI), is 1997 by Intel, Microsoft, and Toshiba, was jointly proposed, and developed by the operating system power management, hardware configuration interface, is an open standard, replacing the advanced power management, multi-processor specification, the old plug-and-play specification. In 2000 August Compaq and Phoenix Technology joined, the introduction of ACPI 2.0 specifications. HP replaced Compaq in September 2004 with the ACPI 3.0 specification.
