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| author | wes <wes@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-02-18 05:20:31 +0000 |
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| committer | wes <wes@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-02-18 05:20:31 +0000 |
| commit | d7e44aa622989cf6791737345f93ed1bc7ecbfa7 (patch) | |
| tree | 8cdeb1e669c246e6c8a83023b1c4703433f9ec24 | |
| parent | dba5418199fbfddd296d7632492e72e8b043458a (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-d7e44aa622989cf6791737345f93ed1bc7ecbfa7.zip FreeBSD-src-d7e44aa622989cf6791737345f93ed1bc7ecbfa7.tar.gz | |
Mention that kernel environment variables may be configured in
/boot/loader.conf. Make the description flow a bit better.
Complaints by: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/acpi.4 | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/acpi.4 b/share/man/man4/acpi.4 index 52ea154..8cf16d7 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/acpi.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/acpi.4 @@ -56,6 +56,12 @@ and tuning options which are managed via the kernel environment space, and set in the .Xr loader 8 before booting the kernel. +Kernel environment variables may also be configured in the +.Xr loader +configuration file +.Pa /boot/loader.conf +or the device resource hints file +.Pa /boot/device.hints . .Pp Debugging is separated between layers and levels, where a layer is a portion of the ACPI subsystem, and a level is a particular kind @@ -211,8 +217,8 @@ To disable the .Nm driver completely, set the kernel environment variable .Va hint.acpi.0.disabled -to 1 in the device resource hints file -.Pa /boot/device.hints . +to 1. +.Pp Some i386 machines totally fail to operate with some or all of ACPI disabled. Other i386 machines fail with ACPI enabled. Non-i386 platforms do not support operating systems which do not use ACPI. |
