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authortrhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>2002-12-19 18:26:26 +0000
committertrhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>2002-12-19 18:26:26 +0000
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Tweak the grammar in the device.hints(5) manual page.
PR: 45893 Submitted by: Chris Pepper <pepper@rockefeller.edu> (Original Version)
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man5/device.hints.516
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man5/device.hints.5 b/share/man/man5/device.hints.5
index 1f0cb37..92fc9db 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/device.hints.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/device.hints.5
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ The
.Nm
file is read in by the boot
.Xr loader 8
-when the system is about to start and its contents will be
+when the system is about to start, and its contents are
passed to the kernel.
It contains various variables to control the boot behavior of
the kernel.
@@ -51,10 +51,10 @@ Lines starting with the
character are comments and are ignored by the boot loader.
.Pp
After the file is read by the boot loader, you may examine
-the variables by the
+the variables with the
.Ic show
-command, and may add a new variable, modify existing one,
-or delete one by the
+command, and may add a new variable, modify an existing one,
+or delete a variable with the
.Ic set
and
.Ic unset
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ commands of the boot loader
.Xr loader 8 ) .
.Pp
After the system has started, you can dump these variables
-by the
+with the
.Xr kenv 1
command.
.Sh DEVICE HINTS
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ where
.Ar driver
is the name of a device driver,
.Ar unit
-is the unit number,
+is the unit number, and
.Ar keyword
is the keyword of the hint.
The keyword may be:
@@ -98,11 +98,11 @@ is the interrupt line number to be used.
.It Li drq
is the DMA channel number.
.It Li maddr
-specifies the physical memory address occupied by the device.
+specifies the physical memory address used by the device.
.It Li flags
sets various flag bits for the device.
.It Li disabled
-is set to
+can be set to
.Qq 1
to disable the device.
.El
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