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To: Bob Van Valzah <Bob@VanValzah.Com>
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Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 22:33:21 -0800
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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Subject: Re: Possible Handbook Typo 
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> From: Bob Van Valzah <Bob@VanValzah.Com>
> Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 18:37:05 -0600
> Sender: owner-freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org
> 
> I'm just reading the acpi-debug.html page in the handbook and I see
> something that looks suspicious (to my eyes at least).
> 
> Section 11.16.3.2 System Hangs (temporary or permanent) advises setting
> hint.apic.0.disabled="1" in loader.conf.  Shouldn't hints go
> in /boot/device.hints instead of loader.conf?
> 
> I'm no expert in this area, so I thought I check it with the ACPI list
> before submitting a PR.

No typo.

Hints may be in either the device.hints file or loader.conf, but in the
case of ACPI, it's probably better to use loader.conf as it is processed
earlier and ACPI starts doing things very early in the boot procedure,
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634