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authorMichael Knudsen <mk@cvs.openbsd.org>2006-10-03 20:37:42 +0000
committerMichael Knudsen <mk@cvs.openbsd.org>2006-10-03 20:37:42 +0000
commit288cae0148047b37b074b2568899f36a98bf5e04 (patch)
tree7a93b4ca692fd19d80b5e6e1fccc462b5584848d /share
parent7f478f8c479940e1a6dfd19ec42755dd7da7b89e (diff)
Document acpiac, acpiec, and acpitz.
From Dmitri Alenitchev with tweaking from jmc and myself. ok jmc
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/acpi.458
1 files changed, 52 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/acpi.4 b/share/man/man4/acpi.4
index 8e334dc8feb..f5053f2a8db 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/acpi.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/acpi.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: acpi.4,v 1.8 2006/10/02 19:39:54 mk Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: acpi.4,v 1.9 2006/10/03 20:37:41 mk Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2006 Alexander Yurchenko <grange@openbsd.org>
.\"
@@ -19,15 +19,21 @@
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm acpi ,
+.Nm acpiac ,
.Nm acpibat ,
+.Nm acpiec ,
.Nm acpihpet ,
-.Nm acpitimer
+.Nm acpitimer ,
+.Nm acpitz
.Nd Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "acpi0 at mainbus?"
+.Cd "acpiac* at acpi?"
.Cd "acpibat* at acpi?"
+.Cd "acpiec* at acpi?"
.Cd "acpihpet* at acpi?"
.Cd "acpitimer* at acpi?"
+.Cd "acpitz* at acpi?"
.Pp
.Cd "option ACPIVERBOSE"
.Cd "option ACPI_ENABLE"
@@ -39,6 +45,11 @@ the firmware, parsing and interpreting AML code, event handling,
suspending and powering off, and attaching device drivers.
.Pp
The
+.Nm acpiec
+driver provides access to ACPI Embedded Controllers for other ACPI devices.
+AC power source status is updated every 10 seconds.
+.Pp
+The
.Nm acpibat
driver supports the ACPI Control Method Battery interface between the
battery and the host.
@@ -47,6 +58,22 @@ and serial number, is available through this driver.
Battery status is updated every 10 seconds.
.Pp
The
+.Nm acpiec
+driver supports ACPI Embedded Controllers.
+It provides embedded controller access for other ACPI devices.
+On many systems
+which have an
+.Nm acpiec
+device, other ACPI devices such as
+.Nm acpiac ,
+.Nm acpibat ,
+and
+.Nm acpitz
+implicitly depend on the
+.Nm acpiec
+device.
+.Pp
+The
.Nm acpihpet
driver provides support for the high precision event timer to be used
as a timecounter for the
@@ -60,6 +87,15 @@ The timer is used as a timecounter for the
.Xr tc_init 9
framework.
.Pp
+The
+.Nm acpitz
+driver supports ACPI Thermal Zones.
+Temperature information is available through this driver as a sensor
+which is updated every 10 seconds.
+.\" If the temperature exceeds the
+.\" .Sq critical
+.\" temperature threshold, the system will be shut down.
+.Pp
If the configuration option
.Dq Dv ACPIVERBOSE
is set, information about all detected ACPI devices will be displayed
@@ -75,7 +111,7 @@ WARNING: this may cause an overheating on some machines since
doesn't provide any thermal or cooling control.
.Pp
Some devices, such as
-.Nm acpibat ,
+.Nm acpiac ,
provide hardware information via sensors
that can be monitored using
.Xr sysctl 8
@@ -89,10 +125,13 @@ or
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm acpi ,
+.Nm acpiac ,
.Nm acpibat ,
+.Nm acpiec ,
.Nm acpihpet ,
+.Nm acpitimer ,
and
-.Nm acpitimer
+.Nm acpitz
drivers first appeared in
.Ox 3.8 .
.Sh AUTHORS
@@ -105,9 +144,16 @@ and
drivers were written by
.An Thorsten Lockert Aq tholo@sigmasoft.com .
The
-.Nm acpibat
-driver was written by
+.Nm acpiac ,
+.Nm acpibat ,
+and
+.Nm acpitz
+drivers were written by
.An Marco Peereboom Aq marco@openbsd.org .
+The
+.Nm acpiec
+driver was written by
+.An Can Erkin Acar Aq canacar@openbsd.org .
.Sh BUGS
Some systems do not propagate battery insertion up to the driver.
.Pp