Module Name: src
Committed By: jruoho
Date: Sun Apr 25 17:50:13 UTC 2010
Modified Files:
src/share/man/man4: acpi.4
Log Message:
Mention the ACPICA debugger and the way to enter to it from ddb(4).
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.49 -r1.50 src/share/man/man4/acpi.4
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Index: src/share/man/man4/acpi.4
diff -u src/share/man/man4/acpi.4:1.49 src/share/man/man4/acpi.4:1.50
--- src/share/man/man4/acpi.4:1.49 Mon Apr 12 12:41:36 2010
+++ src/share/man/man4/acpi.4 Sun Apr 25 17:50:13 2010
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: acpi.4,v 1.49 2010/04/12 12:41:36 wiz Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: acpi.4,v 1.50 2010/04/25 17:50:13 jruoho Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2002, 2004, 2010 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd April 12, 2010
+.Dd April 25, 2010
.Dt ACPI 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -238,6 +238,8 @@
IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad laptop device driver.
.It ug
Abit uGuru Hardware monitor.
+.It vald
+Toshiba Libretto device.
.It wb
Winbond W83L518D Integrated Media Reader.
.It wss
@@ -255,8 +257,6 @@
Sony Miscellaneous Controller
.It spic
Sony programmable I/O controller.
-.It vald
-Toshiba Libretto device.
.El
.Sh DEBUGGING
Although the situation has become better over the years,
@@ -335,6 +335,25 @@
.Tn ACPI_DSDT_OVERRIDE
in the kernel configuration file and rebuild.
.El
+.Ss DEBUGGER
+The
+.Tn ACPICA
+interpreter provides its own debugger for low-level debugging.
+It can be used to display internal data structures and namespace objects,
+and to debug the execution of control methods.
+Single step and breakpoint functionality are available.
+In
+.Nx
+this is integrated to the in-kernel
+.Xr ddb 4 .
+In order to enter the
+.Tn ACPICA
+debugger from
+.Xr ddb 4 ,
+use the command
+.Ic call
+with the argument
+.Ic acpi_osd_debugger .
.Ss DEBUG OUTPUT
.Nx
provides two
