From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 27 03:01:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA03118 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 03:01:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from reliam.teaser.fr (reliam.teaser.fr [194.51.80.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA03111 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 03:01:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from son@teaser.fr) Received: from teaser.fr (ppp1087-ft.teaser.fr [194.206.156.40]) by reliam.teaser.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1a) with ESMTP id MAA04299; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 12:00:55 +0100 (MET) Received: (from son@localhost) by teaser.fr (8.9.1/8.9.1) id TAA01103; Sat, 26 Dec 1998 19:02:02 GMT (envelope-from son) Message-ID: <19981226190202.57516@breizh.prism.uvsq.fr> Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 19:02:02 +0000 From: Nicolas Souchu To: Mike Smith Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mainboard Monitor Probes (Linux port too hard?) References: <19981222011226.50577@breizh.prism.uvsq.fr> <199812231949.LAA03752@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <199812231949.LAA03752@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 11:49:41AM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD breizh 3.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 11:49:41AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > >> On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 01:24:14PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: >> > >> >Whistle has some basic support for the LM80 power-supply and environmental >> >monitor chip. When I port it back to the IICbus generic code it may >> >supply a basis to work on. >> >> Sure. We'll also have to consider Linux stuff. > >Or at least basic compatibility with it, yes. Yes, rather basic compatibility, and trying to convince them to move there code to user space and use /dev. > >> It may be a hard issue since they rely on there /proc and module >> loadable mechanism. We should certainly use kld too. > >Indeed. So when will ppbus move to the new-bus model and become >KLDable? :) I was sure you would ask it soon. I was planning to get help from the ISA port, especially for the interrupt handling. > >> Another problem is the license... > >I think our designs are sufficiently different that all we're going to >get from their code are ideas, so the licenses aren't necessarily a >real problem... \begin{flame} Ideas are not under the GPL? I thought the license was universal!?! :) That's what the Linux associations try to convince us with, here in France. \end{flame} -- nsouch@teaser.fr / nsouch@freebsd.org FreeBSD - Turning PCs into workstations - http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message