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diff --git a/usr.sbin/acpi/acpidump/acpidump.8 b/usr.sbin/acpi/acpidump/acpidump.8
index e825ab1..ecb0a7e 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/acpi/acpidump/acpidump.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/acpi/acpidump/acpidump.8
@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
-command analyzes ACPI tables in physical memory and dumps them to standard output.
+utility analyzes ACPI tables in physical memory and dumps them to
+standard output.
In addition,
.Nm
can disassemble AML
@@ -60,8 +61,9 @@ Differentiated System Description Table),
that includes information used on the kernel side such as
detailed information about PnP hardware, procedures for controlling
power management support and so on.
+The
.Nm
-can extract the DSDT data block from physical memory and store it into
+utility can extract the DSDT data block from physical memory and store it into
a DSDT data file, and also can generate an output in ASL
from a given DSDT data file.
.Pp
@@ -87,8 +89,9 @@ called SDTs
and their header has a common format which consists of items
such as Signature, Length, Revision, Checksum, OEMID, OEM Table ID,
OEM Revision, Creator ID and Creator Revision.
+The
.Nm
-dumps contents of these SDTs.
+utility dumps contents of these SDTs.
For further information about formats of each table,
see chapter 5:
.Dq ACPI Software Programming Model
@@ -180,5 +183,5 @@ and
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
-command appeared in
+utility appeared in
.Fx 5.0 .
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