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Cc: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: drivers for desktop hardware monitoring chips
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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