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Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/acpi')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/acpi/acpidump/acpidump.8 | 20 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/acpi/amldb/amldb.8 | 16 |
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/acpi/acpidump/acpidump.8 b/usr.sbin/acpi/acpidump/acpidump.8 index 5c6ca9b..299d6fe 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/acpi/acpidump/acpidump.8 +++ b/usr.sbin/acpi/acpidump/acpidump.8 @@ -48,12 +48,12 @@ command analyzes ACPI tables in physical memory and dumps them to standard outpu In addition, .Nm can disassemble some contents of the tables in AML -.Pq ACPI Machine Language +(ACPI Machine Language) and dump them in ASL -.Pq ACPI Source Language . +(ACPI Source Language). .Pp ACPI tables have an notably essential data block called DSDT -.Pq Differentiated System Description Table , +(Differentiated System Description Table), that includes information used on the kernel side such as detail information about PnP hardware, procedures for controlling a power management support and so on. @@ -71,12 +71,12 @@ and dump them. First, it searches Root System Description Pointer, that has a signature .Qq RSD PTR\ \& , and then gets RSDT -.Pq Root System Description Table , +(Root System Description Table), which includes a list of pointers to physical memory addresses for other tables. RSDT itself and all other tables linked from RSDT are generically called SDT -.Pq System Description Table +(System Description Table) and their header has the common format which consists of items such as Signature, Length, Revision, Checksum, OEMID, OEM Table ID, OEM Revision, Creator ID and Creator Revision. @@ -88,13 +88,13 @@ see chapter 5: ACPI Software Programming Model, from Intel/Microsoft/Toshiba. .Pp There is always a pointer to a physical memory address in RSDT for FACP -.Pq Fixed ACPI Description Table . +(Fixed ACPI Description Table). FACP defines static system information about power management support -.Pq ACPI Hardware Register Implementation +(ACPI Hardware Register Implementation) such as interrupt mode -.Pq INT_MODEL , +(INT_MODEL), SCI interrupt number, SMI command port -.Pq SMI_CMD +(SMI_CMD) and location of ACPI registers. FACP also has a pointer to a physical memory address for DSDT, which includes information used on the kernel side such as @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ simultaneously on a machine that supports ACPI BIOS. In the current implementation, .Nm doesn't dump any information of Firmware ACPI Control Structure -.Pq FACS +(FACS) specified by a pointer in FACP. Some parts of output in ASL are incomplete. To obtain a complete output, it would need to change the implementation into another one diff --git a/usr.sbin/acpi/amldb/amldb.8 b/usr.sbin/acpi/amldb/amldb.8 index a253a21..d10e900 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/acpi/amldb/amldb.8 +++ b/usr.sbin/acpi/amldb/amldb.8 @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ .Sh NAME .Nm amldb .Nd executing and debugging AML interpreter -.Pq with DSDT files +(with DSDT files) .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Op Fl dhst @@ -42,10 +42,10 @@ .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm Amldb parses the DSDT -.Pq Differentiated System Description Table +(Differentiated System Description Table) files, which usually are acquired from ACPI BIOS, and executes the sequence of ACPI Control Methods described in AML -.Pq ACPI Machine Language +(ACPI Machine Language) with its AML interpreter. .Nm Amldb also has a simple ACPI virtual machine. During execution of the @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ with ACPI BIOS through .Xr acpidump 8 . The DSDT is a table, a part of the whole ACPI memory table located in somewhere in the BIOS area -.Pq 0xa0000 \- 0x100000 . +.Pq Li 0xa0000 \- 0x100000 . It includes such information as the detailed hardware information for PnP, and the set of procedures which perform power management from the OS. The information is stored in AML format. @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ The AML interpreter can execute any of the Control Methods specified by users. When executed, it interprets the byte sequence in the Control Method of DSDT, and disassembles the opecodes that it recognizes into ASL -.Pq ACPI Source Language +(ACPI Source Language) format to be displayed. .Pp If it encounters one of more accesses to the region such as @@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ Lists the named objects that includes the specified string as the terminate elements searching from the ACPI namespace. For the namespace is expressed as the sequence of four-character elements, appropriate number of additional underscore -.Pq Sq _ +.Pq Ql _ characters are necessary for specifying objects which have less than four character string. Unless additional underscores specified, matching occurs as the beginning of word with the specified number of characters. @@ -232,10 +232,10 @@ The following is an example including, invoking the .Nm , searching .Li _PRS -.Pq Possible Resource Settings +(Possible Resource Settings) objects, and executing the .Li _PTS -.Pq Prepare To Sleep +(Prepare To Sleep) Control Method by the AML interpreter. .Bd -literal -offset indent % amldb p2b.dsdt.dat |
