acpica mit Homebrew, apk, MacPorts, pacman, zypper, dnf, chocolatey installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• acpibin
• acpidump
• acpiexamples
• acpiexec
• acpihelp
• acpisrc
• acpixtract
• iasl

Projektgeschichte

Intel's official ACPICA overview describes ACPICA as a reference implementation of the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface specification, written in ANSI C for portability across 32-bit and 64-bit operating-system environments. The same overview says ACPICA contains both kernel-mode and user-mode components.

The official download page says ACPICA is maintained in Git, with commits made as individual fixes and features are completed, and provides source packages, makefiles, utilities, and release logs. The GitHub repository was created in 2011 and mirrors the source tree with documents, source, tests, and release tags.

Adoptionsgeschichte

ACPICA has an unusually direct path from upstream package to operating-system internals. Intel's overview says ACPICA updates for Linux are provided periodically in patch form and that the code is converted and integrated into the Linux kernel source. The input package-manager facts show the user-space tools packaged across Homebrew, Alpine, Chocolatey, DNF, MacPorts, Arch, and openSUSE.

Wie es verwendet wird

Package users most often encounter ACPICA through command-line utilities: iASL compiles and disassembles ACPI Source Language and AML, acpidump obtains ACPI tables, acpixtract extracts tables, and acpiexec helps exercise AML execution. The GitHub source tree's compiler help documents iASL options for compiling, disassembling, generating listings, and creating table templates.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

ACPICA matters to package nerds because it sits at the boundary between firmware specifications, kernel enablement, and user-space diagnostics. Packaging it gives developers and distro maintainers reproducible tools for inspecting, compiling, and debugging ACPI tables without depending on a full kernel tree.

Zeitleiste

• 2011-08-08: GitHub repository created.
• 2015-06-16: GitHub tag R061615 appears in the repository tag list.
• 2021: Intel overview references ACPICA version 20210331 in documentation text.
• 2024-12-12: ACPICA release R2024_12_12 published on GitHub.
• 2026-04-08: ACPICA Release version 20260408 published.

Related projects

• Related projects include the ACPI specification, Linux ACPI subsystem work, firmware/BIOS development workflows, iASL, acpidump, acpiexec, and ACPI table debugging tools.

Quellen

• Intel overview, download and documentation pages, GitHub repository/release metadata, and source_facts.package-manager.