From e9ffb96ee3d248d0e54b5c6f4a36f96f9c01cd2c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jruoho <jruoho@NetBSD.org>
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 06:54:40 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add also a paragraph about the platform-specific nature of
 the thermal management.

---
 share/man/man4/acpitz.4 | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/share/man/man4/acpitz.4 b/share/man/man4/acpitz.4
index f0788501efee..15c5af9c4ec7 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/acpitz.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/acpitz.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: acpitz.4,v 1.10 2010/04/25 06:04:59 jruoho Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: acpitz.4,v 1.11 2010/04/25 06:54:40 jruoho Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2003, 2004 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -65,6 +65,13 @@ frequencies) in order to reduce the temperatures.
 .Pp
 Only active cooling is currently supported on
 .Nx .
+.Pp
+It should be also noted that the internal
+functioning of these cooling policies vary across machines.
+On some machines the operating system may have little control over
+the thermal zones as the firmware manages the thermal control internally,
+whereas on other machines the policies may be exposed to the implementation
+at their full extent.
 .Sh EVENTS
 The
 .Nm