From d7e44aa622989cf6791737345f93ed1bc7ecbfa7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: wes Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 05:20:31 +0000 Subject: Mention that kernel environment variables may be configured in /boot/loader.conf. Make the description flow a bit better. Complaints by: Nate Lawson --- share/man/man4/acpi.4 | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'share') 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. -- cgit v1.1