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authorTom Cosgrove <tom@cvs.openbsd.org>2006-05-13 00:03:51 +0000
committerTom Cosgrove <tom@cvs.openbsd.org>2006-05-13 00:03:51 +0000
commitc3122c199a011a2ea9ff1f8faa33b6267f16401c (patch)
tree2c45cefa27c8ab6d865ac94ede53dcfda3aa0c3c
parent806e66133372cde767c08ba475f9a99947f2ca82 (diff)
Add section on 0x0008 flags (SMBIOS), initially from gwk@. Tweak
this section and the rest of the page, with help from jmc@. ok jmc@
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/man4.i386/bios.421
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/bios.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/bios.4
index fcd4881c7e0..e157799a8a5 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/bios.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/bios.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: bios.4,v 1.9 2003/06/06 10:29:42 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: bios.4,v 1.10 2006/05/13 00:03:50 tom Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2001 Michael Shalayeff
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Ox
provides support for PC firmware, aka BIOS and some of its functions,
-currently: APM subsystem, BIOS 32 extensions, PCI BIOS subsystem.
+currently: APM subsystem, BIOS32 extensions, PCI BIOS subsystem.
.Pp
The
.Nm
@@ -51,23 +51,32 @@ ROM images and reserves the space from being used by various
ISA devices, for example
.Xr pcic 4 .
.Pp
-Flags is a bit mask each bit of which specifies which functions
+Flags is a bit mask, each bit of which specifies which functions
of the driver to disable.
.Bl -tag -width 0x0001
.It 0x0001
-BIOS 32 attachment.
+BIOS32 attachment.
.Pp
-Do not probe and attach to BIOS 32 extensions, which is one of
+Do not probe or attach to BIOS32 extensions.
+BIOS32 is one of
the interfaces to the PCI BIOS configuration tables.
.It 0x0002
PCI BIOS attachment.
.Pp
-Do not probe and attach the
+Do not probe or attach the
.Xr pcibios 4
device, which performs certain PCI configuration tasks.
.It 0x0004
Do not perform the scan for ROM images in the ISA memory hole
(0xc0000 - 0xf0000 physical addresses).
+.It 0x0008
+SMBIOS attachment.
+.Pp
+Do not probe or attach to SMBIOS.
+SMBIOS provides greater detail about system hardware configuration
+and is required to attach
+.Xr ipmi 4
+on most systems.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr apm 4 ,