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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: VIA ACPI power management controller
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Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Jun 2003 11:33:13 -0400 (EDT)
> John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > It doesn't really need to know about it.  Perhaps acpi should include
> > a dummy driver similar to the 'hostb' driver to "eat" such devices.
> 
> Does this mean it should already display some thermal information, or
> does this mean it just needs to "eat" this device to be able to display
> the thermal information (I assume the information available via (x)mbmon
> should also be available via ACPI...)?

Yes, if you have a BIOS that knows about all the ACPI features,
and knows how to talk to the thermal monitoring parts of the
chip.

Again, this is a BIOS issue; you should contact your motherboard
manufacturer.

-- Terry