ACPIPWRRES(4)

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πŸ’… ACPIPWRRES(4) πŸ’…

okay so bestie, you've stumbled into section 4 of the manual β€” Kernel Interfaces Manual β€” and this lil page is literally all about acpipwrres. yes that's a mouthful, we're pronouncing it "akky-power-res" in the group chat, don't @ me 🫢


✨ NAME ✨

acpipwrres β€” ACPI power resources, and yes that's the whole vibe 🌸


πŸ¦‹ SYNOPSIS πŸ¦‹

acpipwrres* at acpi?

that's it. that's the whole flex. the * and the ? are doing their usual wildcard thing, iykyk ✨


πŸ’– DESCRIPTION πŸ’–

okay so picture this: the acpipwrres driver is the one holding down support for ACPI power resources management. that's its whole main character job πŸ‘‘

and what even is a power resource? so glad you asked πŸŽ€ it's a software-controllable power plane, clock plane or other resource β€” basically a thing the software can flip on and off β€” and an integrated ACPI power-managed device might lowkey rely on it. like the device is standing on this resource's shoulders fr fr πŸ’€

so yeah. planes. clocks. resources. it's giving infrastructure. it's giving behind-the-scenes queen who never gets credit but keeps the whole show running πŸ”₯


🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read these next, bestie, no cap:


πŸŽ€ HISTORY πŸŽ€

the acpipwrres driver first appeared in OpenBSD 4.6 ⭐ iconic debut, honestly, we love an origin story πŸ¦‹


πŸ‘‘ AUTHORS πŸ‘‘

the acpipwrres driver was written by Paul Irofti <paul@irofti.net> β€” tip your crown to this legend, they literally built the thing πŸ’œ


ngl this page is short but it's loaded, so don't skip the details just because there's only like four sections. read the whole thing. periodt πŸ’…

alright bestie, and that's the page!! this lil writeup came from the Debian run of the manual, dated April 6, 2020 β€” take that energy with you, mwah πŸ˜­πŸ’–

πŸ“¦ where this page comes from
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