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-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/acpidump/acpidump.823
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/acpidump/acpidump.8 b/usr.sbin/acpidump/acpidump.8
index beab72660be..02f44b305b9 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/acpidump/acpidump.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/acpidump/acpidump.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: acpidump.8,v 1.4 2007/02/22 19:29:51 jordan Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: acpidump.8,v 1.5 2007/02/23 14:47:45 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1999 Doug Rabson <dfr@FreeBSD.org>
.\" Copyright (c) 2000 Mitsuru IWASAKI <iwasaki@FreeBSD.org>
@@ -119,14 +119,17 @@ and dumps them in ASL to standard output.
.It Fl h
Display usage and exit.
.It Fl o Ar prefix_for_output
-Store ACPI tables from physical memory into files specified by
-.Ar prefix_for_output
-in addition to behavior with no option. The files generated will
-be of the form <prefix>.<sig>.<id>. The sig is the signature of
-the ACPI Table, id is unique for each table.
-
+Additionally store ACPI tables from physical memory into files specified by
+.Ar prefix_for_output .
+The files generated will
+be of the form <prefix>.<sig>.<id>.
+.Dq sig
+is the signature of the ACPI Table;
+.Dq id
+is unique for each table.
+.Pp
The following are common table signatures (there may be others):
-RSDP, FACP, DSDT, SSDT, HPET, MCFG, SPMI, APIC, SPCR, SRAT, XSDT
+RSDP, FACP, DSDT, SSDT, HPET, MCFG, SPMI, APIC, SPCR, SRAT, XSDT.
.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /dev/mem
@@ -137,11 +140,11 @@ This is an example to get a dump of SDTs and a DSDT data file
simultaneously on a machine that supports ACPI BIOS:
.Pp
.Dl # acpidump -o foo \*(Gt foo.asl
-
+.Pp
This will generate foo.RSDP.x, foo.FACP.x, foo.DSDT.x, etc.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.\" .Xr acpi 4 ,
-.Xr mem 4 ,
+.Xr mem 4
.\" .Xr acpiconf 8 ,
.\" Xr amldb 8
.Rs