11. Thermal Management

This chapter describes the ACPI thermal model and specifies the ACPI Namespace objects OSPM uses for thermal management of the platform.

• 11.1. Thermal Control
• 11.2. Cooling Preferences
• 11.3. Fan Device
• 11.4. Thermal Objects
• 11.5. Native OS Device Driver Thermal Interfaces
• 11.6. Thermal Zone Interface Requirements
• 11.7. Thermal Zone Examples