-.\" $OpenBSD: acpicpu.4,v 1.6 2013/07/16 16:05:48 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: acpicpu.4,v 1.7 2015/10/11 00:12:38 guenther Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2006 Michael Knudsen <mk@openbsd.org>
.\"
.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: July 16 2013 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: October 11 2015 $
.Dt ACPICPU 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm
driver provides support for extracting processor power and performance
levels from ACPI tables.
-This information can be used to throttle processor speed to reduce
+This information is used to enter deeper CPU sleeping states when idle,
+and can be used to throttle processor speed to reduce
power usage and extend battery life through the
.Va hw.setperf
.Xr sysctl 3
.Nm
driver was written by
.An Marco Peereboom Aq Mt marco@openbsd.org .
+C-state support was added by
+.An Philip Guenther Aq Mt guenther@openbsd.org .