svn commit: r285817 - head/share/man/man5
Brooks Davis
brooks at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jul 23 17:27:11 UTC 2015
Author: brooks
Date: Thu Jul 23 17:27:10 2015
New Revision: 285817
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/285817
Log:
Document the fact that tunables can be set in device.hints.
Reviewed by: wblock
MFC after: 3 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3153
Modified:
head/share/man/man5/device.hints.5
Modified: head/share/man/man5/device.hints.5
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man5/device.hints.5 Thu Jul 23 15:50:39 2015 (r285816)
+++ head/share/man/man5/device.hints.5 Thu Jul 23 17:27:10 2015 (r285817)
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd September 11, 2009
+.Dd July 23, 2015
.Dt DEVICE.HINTS 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -41,9 +41,8 @@ passed to the kernel.
It contains various variables to control the boot behavior of
the kernel.
These variables are typically
-.Dq device hints .
-.\" .Dq device hints ,
-.\" and other control variables.
+.Dq device hints ,
+but can include any kernel tunable values.
.Pp
The file contains one variable per line.
Lines starting with the
@@ -152,12 +151,11 @@ The following example disables the ACPI
.Bd -literal -offset indent
hint.acpi.0.disabled="1"
.Ed
-.\" .Pp
-.\" A control variable may look like:
-.\" .Pp
-.\" .Bd -literal -offset indent
-.\" debug.acpi.layer="ACPI_RESOURCES"
-.\" .Ed
+.Pp
+Setting a tunable variable:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+vm.pmap.pg_ps_enabled=1
+.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr kenv 1 ,
.Xr loader.conf 5 ,
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