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[src/trunk]: src/share/man/man4 Add also a paragraph about the platform-speci...



details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/1f69cc4f8f84
branches:  trunk
changeset: 754256:1f69cc4f8f84
user:      jruoho <jruoho%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Sun Apr 25 06:54:40 2010 +0000

description:
Add also a paragraph about the platform-specific nature of the thermal
management.

diffstat:

 share/man/man4/acpitz.4 |  9 ++++++++-
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diffs (23 lines):

diff -r eaa1a68d1682 -r 1f69cc4f8f84 share/man/man4/acpitz.4
--- a/share/man/man4/acpitz.4   Sun Apr 25 06:24:38 2010 +0000
+++ b/share/man/man4/acpitz.4   Sun Apr 25 06:54:40 2010 +0000
@@ -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



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