From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 8 14:13:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from chmod.ath.cx (CC2-1242.charter-stl.com [24.217.116.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD37F37B718; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 14:13:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ajh3@chmod.ath.cx) Received: by chmod.ath.cx (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E8297A8D2; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 16:12:54 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 16:12:54 -0600 From: Andrew Hesford To: Lyndon Nerenberg Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ABIT KT7 and temp monitoring Message-ID: <20010308161254.A12645@cec.wustl.edu> References: <200103082209.f28M9hU04940@gollum.esys.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200103082209.f28M9hU04940@gollum.esys.ca>; from lyndon@MessagingDirect.COM on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 03:09:43PM -0700 X-Loop: Andrew Hesford Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG man 4 smb /dev/smb0 The problem is the smb kernel device supports a limited number of chips. On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 03:09:43PM -0700, 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. > > --lyndon > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@chmod.ath.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message