Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 13:58:28 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Cc: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: drivers for desktop hardware monitoring chips Message-ID: <201210051358.28286.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <506F06FA.4050804@FreeBSD.org> References: <506F06FA.4050804@FreeBSD.org>
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On Friday, October 05, 2012 12:12:42 pm Andriy Gapon wrote: > > Currently FreeBSD is severely lacking in support for basic hardware monitoring on > desktop-class systems. Such systems typically do not have IPMI or other similar > types of agents. Instead they usually have a hardware monitoring function in a > Super I/O chip or less frequently in a dedicated chip. > Popular manufacturers of such chips are Nuvoton (formerly Winbond) and ITE. In general I think this is a good idea. We did head too far off in the weeds last time. It would be nice to eventually build a more unified framework on top of this that also includes things like coretemp and IPMI sensors, but that can be a layer on top of various existing drivers, including on top of this IMO. -- John Baldwin
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