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authorWes Peters <wes@FreeBSD.org>2004-02-18 05:20:31 +0000
committerWes Peters <wes@FreeBSD.org>2004-02-18 05:20:31 +0000
commitd865f9ef199cab9027eeda7e157bc6c1d75ea403 (patch)
tree8cdeb1e669c246e6c8a83023b1c4703433f9ec24
parent25f718f0b7288ce90443cf191f98ff87b26bb2a2 (diff)
Notes
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/acpi.410
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/acpi.4 b/share/man/man4/acpi.4
index 52ea1548bd16..8cf16d70e85b 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.