From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 6 09:34:17 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 079F237B408 for ; Fri, 6 Jun 2003 09:34:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail12.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FE9943F75 for ; Fri, 6 Jun 2003 09:34:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 26719 invoked from network); 6 Jun 2003 16:34:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender )encrypted SMTP for ; 6 Jun 2003 16:34:15 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h56GYCp0014049; Fri, 6 Jun 2003 12:34:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.4 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20030605175636.4f7f48b9.Alexander@Leidinger.net> Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 12:34:03 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Alexander Leidinger cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: VIA ACPI power management controller X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 16:34:17 -0000 On 05-Jun-2003 Alexander Leidinger wrote: > On Thu, 05 Jun 2003 11:33:13 -0400 (EDT) > John Baldwin 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 <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/