ACPITIMER(4)

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🎀 acpitimer(4) — ACPI power management timer 🎀

okay bestie, this is the acpitimer(4) page from the Kernel Interfaces Manual, and it's short but iconic. let's get into it 💅

💖 NAME 💖

acpitimer — ACPI power management timer

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

acpitimer* at acpi?

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

The acpitimer driver lets you access a power management timer through ACPI. That timer is literally used as a timecounter for the tc_init(9) framework. No cap, that's the whole vibe: ACPI timer access, timecounter duties, done. 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

🎀 HISTORY 🎀

The acpitimer driver first appeared in OpenBSD 3.8. Periodt. 🕰️

👑 AUTHORS 👑

The acpitimer driver was written by Thorsten Lockert <tholo@sigmasoft.com>. Obsessed with the credit, honestly. 💖

This page's footer is giving Debian, July 16, 2013, and ACPITIMER(4) — bye bestie, mwah 💋✨

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  • Copyright (c) 2006 Alexander Yurchenko <grange@openbsd.org>
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