Bug 51523

Summary: ACPI sub-device for CPU mislabelled in acpi(4) manpage
Product: Documentation Reporter: Cliff L. Biffle <cbiffle>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: Tom Rhodes <trhodes>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Cliff L. Biffle 2003-04-28 23:10:19 UTC 
The ACPI sub-device for CPU power-saving and throttling is called "processor"
in the acpi(4) manpage.  While semantically correct, the actual name used to
disable the facility is "cpu" (as seen in src/sys/dev/acpica/acpi_cpu.c, line
126).  Since the manpage listing of sub-devices is titled "sub-devices and
features that can be disabled", this should probably be corrected.

Fix: 

Change the name of the device from 'processor' to 'cpu' in acpi(4).
How-To-Repeat: Add one of the following two lines to /boot/loader.conf:
debug.acpi.disable="processor"
debug.acpi.disable="cpu"
The first is what the manpage suggests.  The second is what works. :-)
Comment 1 Tom Rhodes freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2003-04-29 15:50:49 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->trhodes

Switch this to me, I'll make the changes.
Comment 2 Tom Rhodes freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2003-04-29 15:51:30 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

This has been changed, thanks for pointing this out to us!