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-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/acpi/acpiconf/acpiconf.86
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/acpi/acpidump/acpidump.811
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/acpi/amldb/amldb.814
3 files changed, 18 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/acpi/acpiconf/acpiconf.8 b/usr.sbin/acpi/acpiconf/acpiconf.8
index 5c8ec3b1943c..71ea3815356b 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/acpi/acpiconf/acpiconf.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/acpi/acpiconf/acpiconf.8
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
-command allows the user control of the ACPI power management
+utility allows the user control of the ACPI power management
functions.
The following command-line options are recognized:
.Bl -tag -width indent
@@ -67,13 +67,13 @@ and
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
-command appeared in
+utility appeared in
.Fx 5.0 .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
The
.Nm
-command was written by
+utility was written by
.An Mitsuru Iwasaki Aq iwasaki@FreeBSD.org .
This manual page was written by
.An Dag-Erling Co\(:idan Sm\(/orgrav Aq des@FreeBSD.org .
diff --git a/usr.sbin/acpi/acpidump/acpidump.8 b/usr.sbin/acpi/acpidump/acpidump.8
index e825ab191e17..ecb0a7e1f94d 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/acpi/acpidump/acpidump.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/acpi/acpidump/acpidump.8
@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
-command analyzes ACPI tables in physical memory and dumps them to standard output.
+utility analyzes ACPI tables in physical memory and dumps them to
+standard output.
In addition,
.Nm
can disassemble AML
@@ -60,8 +61,9 @@ Differentiated System Description Table),
that includes information used on the kernel side such as
detailed information about PnP hardware, procedures for controlling
power management support and so on.
+The
.Nm
-can extract the DSDT data block from physical memory and store it into
+utility can extract the DSDT data block from physical memory and store it into
a DSDT data file, and also can generate an output in ASL
from a given DSDT data file.
.Pp
@@ -87,8 +89,9 @@ called SDTs
and their header has a common format which consists of items
such as Signature, Length, Revision, Checksum, OEMID, OEM Table ID,
OEM Revision, Creator ID and Creator Revision.
+The
.Nm
-dumps contents of these SDTs.
+utility dumps contents of these SDTs.
For further information about formats of each table,
see chapter 5:
.Dq ACPI Software Programming Model
@@ -180,5 +183,5 @@ and
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
-command appeared in
+utility appeared in
.Fx 5.0 .
diff --git a/usr.sbin/acpi/amldb/amldb.8 b/usr.sbin/acpi/amldb/amldb.8
index d10e900b7a21..ba988f25b3e3 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/acpi/amldb/amldb.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/acpi/amldb/amldb.8
@@ -40,15 +40,17 @@
.Op Fl dhst
.Ar dsdt_file ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-.Nm Amldb
-parses the DSDT
+The
+.Nm
+utility parses the DSDT
(Differentiated System Description Table)
files, which usually are acquired from ACPI BIOS, and executes
the sequence of ACPI Control Methods described in AML
(ACPI Machine Language)
with its AML interpreter.
-.Nm Amldb
-also has a simple ACPI virtual machine. During execution of the
+The
+.Nm
+utility also has a simple ACPI virtual machine. During execution of the
Control Methods each access to the region, such as
SystemMemory, SystemIO, PCI_Config, does not affect the real
hardware but only the virtual machine.
@@ -229,7 +231,7 @@ DSDT data file is read.
.El
.Sh EXAMPLES
The following is an example including, invoking the
-.Nm ,
+.Nm Ns ,
searching
.Li _PRS
(Possible Resource Settings)
@@ -332,5 +334,5 @@ and
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
-command appeared in
+utility appeared in
.Fx 5.0 .