System and method for adding hardware registers to a power management and configuration system
    3.
    发明授权
    System and method for adding hardware registers to a power management and configuration system 有权
    将硬件寄存器添加到电源管理和配置系统的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US07328279B2

    公开(公告)日:2008-02-05

    申请号:US11099189

    申请日:2005-04-04

    IPC分类号: G06F15/173

    CPC分类号: G06F9/4411

    摘要: A system for adding multiple GPE blocks (in addition to the system/root GPE block device) to a computing system by creating a device entry in the ACPI namespace, and using a _CRS object to describe the system resources consumed by the device is described. The GPE block device may then access associated hardware devices through a well known mechanism (either I/O or Memory Mapped accesses). By creating additional GPE block devices within the ACPI namespace, general purpose events may be delivered using more traditional hardware interrupt mechanisms than with existing systems (e.g., wiring GPE blocks together). Moreover, by putting GPE block devices in the ACPI namespace, hardware components having hardware registers may be “hot plugged” to the computing system.

    摘要翻译: 描述了通过在ACPI命名空间中创建设备条目以及使用_CRS对象来描述设备使用的系统资源,将多个GPE块(除了系统/根GPE块设备之外))添加到计算系统的系统。 然后,GPE块设备可以通过公知的机制(I / O或存储器映射访问)访问相关的硬件设备。 通过在ACPI命名空间内创建其他GPE块设备,可以使用比现有系统(例如,将GPE块连接在一起)更传统的硬件中断机制来传送通用事件。 此外,通过将GPE块设备放在ACPI命名空间中,具有硬件寄存器的硬件组件可能被“热插拔”到计算系统。

    System and method for preserving state data of a personal computer in a standby state in the event of an AC power failure
    4.
    发明授权
    System and method for preserving state data of a personal computer in a standby state in the event of an AC power failure 有权
    在AC电源故障的情况下,保持处于待机状态的个人计算机的状态数据的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US07228444B2

    公开(公告)日:2007-06-05

    申请号:US11342502

    申请日:2006-01-30

    摘要: A mechanism is provided for a personal computer to preserve user and system state data in the event of an AC power failure when the computer is in a standby state. When the AC power failure occurs, a switchover circuit connects a rechargeable energy storage medium, such as a rechargeable battery, to the power supply of the computer for powering components of computer, and the computer is awaken. A critical battery alarm is then issued to trigger the operating system of the computer to perform a transition into a hibernation state, during which the state data of the computer are persistently stored. The energy storage medium is disconnected from the power supply after the computer system has entered hibernation.

    摘要翻译: 当计算机处于待机状态时,为个人计算机提供一种保护用户和系统状态数据的机制。 当发生交流电源故障时,切换电路将诸如可充电电池的可再充电能量存储介质连接到计算机的电源,为计算机的组件供电,并且计算机被唤醒。 然后发出关键的电池警报以触发计算机的操作系统以执行转换到休眠状态,在此期间,计算机的状态数据被永久存储。 在计算机系统进入休眠模式后,能量存储介质与电源断开连接。