From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 8 14:15:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from thehousleys.net (frenchknot.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.224.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5CC437B71A for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 14:15:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@thehousleys.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by thehousleys.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f28MFs716877; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 17:15:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jim@thehousleys.net) Received: from thehousleys.net (baby.int.thehousleys.net [192.168.0.24]) by thehousleys.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f28MFqA16869; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 17:15:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jim@thehousleys.net) Message-ID: <3AA80497.AF57C2EA@thehousleys.net> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 17:15:52 -0500 From: James Housley X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lyndon Nerenberg Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ABIT KT7 and temp monitoring References: <200103082209.f28M9hU04940@gollum.esys.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > > > healthd works fine on systems that use supported monitoring chips. > > Unfortunately the number of chips that healthd supports is pretty small > > compared to monitoring tools on other platforms, e.g. Motherboard Monitor on > > Windows or LM Sensors on Linux. > > Which says to me that the interface should be abstracted out. > Something like a device driver that presents a /dev device that > you can read or ioctl to get the information in a somewhat chip- > independent fashion. > Some of this is being done in -CURRENT with the APIC device. This will allow more standard access to these values on the newer PIII MBs, hopefully. Jim -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign . \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail . X - NO Word docs in e-mail . / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- jeh@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power to Serve jim@TheHousleys.Net http://www.TheHousleys.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- Progress (n) : What led from smart users in front of dumb terminals to dumb users in front of smart terminals. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message