cvs commit: src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/i386 proc-i386.sgml

[Nate Lawson]

On Fri, 23 May 2003, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <200305231727.h4NHRWf9072169 at repoman.freebsd.org> "Bruce A. Mah" writes:
> :   I'm lost in a maze of twisty little tunables, all different.
> :   The ACPI-disabling hint goes into device.hints, not loader.conf.
>
> Actually, it can go in either place.

Sorry for the misdirection then.  At one point, I swear you had to instead
do "set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1" in loader.conf and that the format he used
(key=value) was only valid in device.hints.

Why do we have device.hints if it's just a subset of the loader.conf
functionality?

-Nate