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  2. ACPI - Wikipedia

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    Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) is an open standard that operating systems can use to discover and configure computer hardware components, to perform power management (e.g. putting unused hardware components to sleep), auto configuration (e.g. Plug and Play and hot swapping), and status monitoring. It was first released in ...

  3. List of computer standards - Wikipedia

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    BIOS Boot Specification: 1.01 [2] 1996/01 BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Specification (INT 13H) 3.0 [3] 1998/04/20 Bluetooth: 5.0 2010/06/30 Boot Integrity Services API 1.0 [4] 1998/12/28 BTX Chassis Design Guidelines 1.1 2007/02 BTX Interface Specification 1.0b 2005/07 BTX System Design Guide 1.1 2007/02/20 Chassis Air Guide (CAG) 1.1 2003/09 ...

  4. Simple Firmware Interface - Wikipedia

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    SFI provides access to a standard ACPI XSDT (Extended System Description Table). XSDT is used by SFI to prevent namespace collision between SPI and ACPI. It can access standard ACPI tables such as PCI Memory Configuration Table (MCFG). SFI support was merged into Linux kernel 2.6.32-rc1; [1] the core SFI patch is about 1,000 lines of code ...

  5. e820 - Wikipedia

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    Example of e820 information from dmesg. e820 is shorthand for the facility by which the BIOS of an x86-based computer system reports the memory map to the operating system or boot loader. [1] It is accessed via the int 15h call, by setting the AX register to value E820 in hexadecimal. It reports which memory address ranges are usable and which ...

  6. Dynamic frequency scaling - Wikipedia

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    ACPI 1.0 (1996) defines a way for a CPU to go to idle "C states", but defines no frequency-scaling system. ACPI 2.0 (2000) introduces a system of P states (power-performance states) that a processor can use to communicate its possible frequency–power settings to the OS. The operating system then sets the speed as needed by switching between ...

  7. Massachusetts mother accused of strangling her 3 children ...

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    Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother accused of strangling her three young children to death before attempting to kill herself, is seeking an insanity defense, court records show.

  8. System Management Bus - Wikipedia

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    The System Management Bus (SMBus or SMB) is a single-ended simple two-wire bus for the purpose of lightweight communication. Most commonly it is found in chipsets of computer motherboards for communication with the power source for ON/OFF instructions.

  9. Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources - Wikipedia

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    The Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR, / f aɪər /, like fire) standard is a set of rules and specifications for the secure exchange of electronic health care data. It is designed to be flexible and adaptable, so that it can be used in a wide range of settings and with different health care information systems.