Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 12:34:03 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: VIA ACPI power management controller Message-ID: <XFMail.20030606123403.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20030605175636.4f7f48b9.Alexander@Leidinger.net>
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On 05-Jun-2003 Alexander Leidinger wrote: > On Thu, 05 Jun 2003 11:33:13 -0400 (EDT) > John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > >> >> On 05-Jun-2003 Alexander Leidinger wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > is there a way to teach our ACPI implementation about >> > >> > none0@pci0:7:4: class=0x068000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x30571106 rev=0x40 hdr=0x00 >> > vendor = 'VIA Technologies Inc' >> > device = 'VT82C686A/B ACPI Power Management Controller' >> > class = bridge >> > subclass = PCI-unknown >> >> 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...)? If your ACPI support includes a thermal zone it will show up in the sysctl. The only reason to "eat" this device is to keep people from asking why it is there. :) -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/
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