fix formatting nits Reference: /n/atom/patch/applied2013/amlmannit Date: Sun Oct 20 03:32:45 CES 2013 Signed-off-by: quanstro@quanstro.net --- /sys/man/2/aml Sun Oct 20 03:32:33 2013 +++ /sys/man/2/aml Sun Oct 20 03:32:34 2013 @@ -75,14 +75,15 @@ void amlunmapio(Amlio *io) .SH DESCRIPTION .I Aml -implements an interpreter for the ACPI machine language, AML. -ACPI is supposed to supplant older configuration methods such as -the MP tables and older power-management methods such as APM. -AML is used by 386 and AMD64 platform BIOS to things +implements an interpreter for the ACPI Machine Language. +ACPI is supposed to supplant older configuration and power +management methods such as MP tables and APM. +AML is used by 386 and AMD64 platform BIOS for things that are not part of the ACPI fixed description tables, such as interrupts. -When used, the +The .I aml -interperter must run in the kernel to parse interrupts, etc. at boot time. +interpreter usually runs in the kernel at boot time to parse interrupts, +and other non-fixed configuration. .PP .I Aml provides access to the following AML object types. @@ -105,7 +106,7 @@ .TE .PP .TP -.BI amlload(data ,\ len\f5) +.BI amlload( data ,\ len ) Start the interperter with the given AML code. For userspace, the kernel provides .BR #P/acpitbls . @@ -147,7 +148,7 @@ Return the number of elements in .IR p . .TP -.BI amlnew( type ,\ size ) +.BI amlnew( type ,\ size ) Create a new aml object of the given .I size and @@ -156,7 +157,7 @@ .BI amltake( p ) Exclude object from garbage collection. .TP -.BI amldrop ( p ) +.BI amldrop( p ) Include previously excluded object in garbage collection. .TP .BI amlwalk( dot ,\ name )