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Date:      Tue, 7 Sep 2004 23:56:23 +0100 (BST)
From:      Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   docs/71476: Filling in some glossary items
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>Number:         71476
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Filling in some glossary items
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
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>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Sep 07 23:00:42 GMT 2004
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Gavin Atkinson
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.3-BETA2 i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD buffy.york.ac.uk 5.3-BETA2 FreeBSD 5.3-BETA2 #9: Mon Sep 6 15:59:27 BST 2004 root@buffy.york.ac.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386

>Description:

	Updates to the glossary file

>How-To-Repeat:
	N/A
>Fix:

Index: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml/glossary/freebsd-glossary.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/cvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml/glossary/freebsd-glossary.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.18
diff -u -r1.18 freebsd-glossary.sgml
--- doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml/glossary/freebsd-glossary.sgml	25 Aug 2004 08:44:53 -0000	1.18
+++ doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml/glossary/freebsd-glossary.sgml	7 Sep 2004 22:44:25 -0000
@@ -93,7 +93,10 @@
       <glossterm><acronym>ACPI</acronym> Machine Language</glossterm>
       <acronym>AML</acronym>
       <glossdef>
-        <para></para>
+        <para>Pseudocode, interpreted by a virtual machine within an
+	  <acronym>ACPI</acronym>-compliant operating system, providing a
+	  layer between the underlying hardware and the documented
+	  interface presented to the <acronym>OS</acronym>.</para>
       </glossdef>
     </glossentry>
 
@@ -101,7 +104,7 @@
       <glossterm><acronym>ACPI</acronym> Source Language</glossterm>
       <acronym>ASL</acronym>
       <glossdef>
-        <para></para>
+        <para>The programming language <acronym>AML</acronym> is written in.</para>
       </glossdef>
     </glossentry>
 
@@ -117,7 +120,14 @@
       <glossterm>Advanced Configuration and Power Interface</glossterm>
       <acronym>ACPI</acronym>
       <glossdef>
-        <para></para>
+        <para>A specification which provides an abstraction of the
+	  interface the hardware presents to the operating system, so
+	  that the operating system should need to know nothing about
+	  the underlying hardware to make the most of it.  <acronym>ACPI</acronym>
+	  evolves and supercedes the functionality provided previously by
+	  <acronym>APM</acronym>, <acronym>PNPBIOS</acronym> and other technologies, and
+	  provides facilities for controlling power consumption, machine
+	  suspension, device enabling and disabling, etc.</para>
       </glossdef>
     </glossentry>
 
@@ -694,7 +704,8 @@
       <glossterm>Intel&rsquo;s <acronym>ASL</acronym> compiler</glossterm>
       <acronym>IASL</acronym>
       <glossdef>
-        <para></para>
+        <para>Intel&rsquo;s compiler for converting <acronym>ASL</acronym> into
+	  <acronym>AML</acronym>.</para>
       </glossdef>
     </glossentry>
 
@@ -975,7 +986,8 @@
       <glossterm>Message Of The Day</glossterm>
       <acronym>MOTD</acronym>
       <glossdef>
-        <para></para>
+        <para>A message, usually shown on login, and often used to
+	  distribute information to users of the system.</para>
       </glossdef>
     </glossentry>
 
@@ -1195,6 +1207,7 @@
         <para></para>
       </glossdef>
     </glossentry>
+
     <glossentry>
       <glossterm>PR</glossterm>
       <glosssee otherterm="pr-glossary">
@@ -1233,7 +1246,9 @@
       <glossterm>Physical Address Extensions</glossterm>
       <acronym>PAE</acronym>
       <glossdef>
-        <para></para>
+        <para>A method of enabling access to up to 64 GB of <acronym>RAM</acronym> on
+	  systems which only physically have a 32-bit wide address space
+	  (and therefore would be limited to 4 GB without PAE).</para>
       </glossdef>
     </glossentry>
 
@@ -1332,7 +1347,8 @@
       <glossterm>Process ID</glossterm>
       <acronym>PID</acronym>
       <glossdef>
-        <para></para>
+        <para>A number, unique to a particular process on a system,
+	  which identifies it and allows actions to be taken against it.</para>
       </glossdef>
     </glossentry>
 

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