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Subject: Re: ACPI Flakiness / Loader
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"Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net> writes:
> As far as documentation goes, what I didn't see documented in the man
> pages or the handbook is how that boot menu interacts with
> device.hints, loader.conf and what settings have precedence.  I don't
> see where the documents say that the device.hints override the menu
> selection or vice versa.  I wasn't sure if I had to tweak Forth code
> to prevent the enabling of ACPI.

man acpi, around line 120:

     To disable the acpi driver completely, set the kernel environment vari-
     able hint.acpi.0.disabled to 1.

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