Mention the ACPICA debugger and the way to enter to it from ddb(4).

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.\" $NetBSD: acpi.4,v 1.49 2010/04/12 12:41:36 wiz Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: acpi.4,v 1.50 2010/04/25 17:50:13 jruoho Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2002, 2004, 2010 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
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.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.Dd April 12, 2010
.Dd April 25, 2010
.Dt ACPI 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
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IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad laptop device driver.
.It ug
Abit uGuru Hardware monitor.
.It vald
Toshiba Libretto device.
.It wb
Winbond W83L518D Integrated Media Reader.
.It wss
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Sony Miscellaneous Controller
.It spic
Sony programmable I/O controller.
.It vald
Toshiba Libretto device.
.El
.Sh DEBUGGING
Although the situation has become better over the years,
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.Tn ACPI_DSDT_OVERRIDE
in the kernel configuration file and rebuild.
.El
.Ss DEBUGGER
The
.Tn ACPICA
interpreter provides its own debugger for low-level debugging.
It can be used to display internal data structures and namespace objects,
and to debug the execution of control methods.
Single step and breakpoint functionality are available.
In
.Nx
this is integrated to the in-kernel
.Xr ddb 4 .
In order to enter the
.Tn ACPICA
debugger from
.Xr ddb 4 ,
use the command
.Ic call
with the argument
.Ic acpi_osd_debugger .
.Ss DEBUG OUTPUT
.Nx
provides two