Document BIOS bytecode overriding.

Pointed out by: Alex Zepeda <zipzippy@sonic.net>
Reviewed by:	David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
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Takanori Watanabe 2002-07-05 15:36:03 +00:00
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@ -258,11 +258,43 @@ The object and all of its children will be ignored during the
bus/children scan of the namespace.
The ACPI CA code will still
know about the avoided region.
.Sh OVERRIDING YOUR BIOS BYTECODE
ACPI interprets bytecode named AML, ACPI Machine Language, provided by the BIOS
vendor as a memory image at boot time. Sometimes the AML code contains
a problem that does not appeared in Microsoft implementation.
So we provide a way to override it with your own AML code.
.Pp
In order to load your AML code,
you must edit
.Pa /boot/loader.conf
and
include the following lines.
.Bd -literal -offset indent
acpi_dsdt_load="YES"
acpi_dsdt_name="/boot/acpi_dsdt.aml" #You may change the name.
.Ed
.Pp
In order to prepare your AML code, you will require
.Xr acpidump 8 ,
.Xr iasl 1
in devel/acpicatools port, and some ACPI knowledge.
.Sh COMPATIBILITY
ACPI is only found/supported on Intel platforms (i386/IA32 and IA64).
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr config 8 ,
.Xr loader.conf 5 ,
.Xr acpidump 8 ,
.Xr acpi 9
.Rs
.%A Compaq Computer Corporation
.%A Intel Corporation
.%A Microsoft Corporation
.%A Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
.%A Toshiba Corporation
.%D July 27 2000
.%T "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Specification"
.%O http://acpi.info/spec.htm
.Re
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
The ACPI CA subsystem is developed and maintained by