Module Name: src
Committed By: jruoho
Date: Sun Apr 25 06:54:40 UTC 2010
Modified Files:
src/share/man/man4: acpitz.4
Log Message:
Add also a paragraph about the platform-specific nature of the thermal
management.
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.10 -r1.11 src/share/man/man4/acpitz.4
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Index: src/share/man/man4/acpitz.4
diff -u src/share/man/man4/acpitz.4:1.10 src/share/man/man4/acpitz.4:1.11
--- src/share/man/man4/acpitz.4:1.10 Sun Apr 25 06:04:59 2010
+++ src/share/man/man4/acpitz.4 Sun Apr 25 06:54:40 2010
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: acpitz.4,v 1.10 2010/04/25 06:04:59 jruoho Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: acpitz.4,v 1.11 2010/04/25 06:54:40 jruoho Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2003, 2004 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -65,6 +65,13 @@
.Pp
Only active cooling is currently supported on
.Nx .
+.Pp
+It should be also noted that the internal
+functioning of these cooling policies vary across machines.
+On some machines the operating system may have little control over
+the thermal zones as the firmware manages the thermal control internally,
+whereas on other machines the policies may be exposed to the implementation
+at their full extent.
.Sh EVENTS
The
.Nm
