From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 13 17:37: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DC1B151D3 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:37:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA02033; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:38:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199912140138.RAA02033@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Andrew Boothman Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DMI Support In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 13 Dec 1999 23:37:23 GMT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:38:04 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > What's the current situation with DMI support on FreeBSD? Basically, there is none. I spent some time looking at it, and finally concluded that there wasn't much to be gained (for me) from it, and moved on. From a functional standpoint DMI doesn't actually offer us very much; ACPI is a closer match to our needs. > Is that still accurate? Do we have any plans to add more support? There are no active plans, no. > This is the kind of thing that I would LOVE to help out on myself, but my > knowledge of FreeBSD isn't detailed enough, and my knowledge of OS programming > is even worse! :) It'd be a good project to cut your teeth on, especially integrating the DMI information into a backend suitable for use with an SNMP server. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message