Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:44:39 +0100 From: Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@FreeBSD.org> To: Nikolay Pavlov <qpadla@gmail.com> Cc: cnst@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org, rwatson@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>, imp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sensors framework continued (architecture) Message-ID: <20071126124438.GA77230@tirith.brixandersen.dk> In-Reply-To: <200711261434.45765.qpadla@gmail.com> References: <20071109124421.3c1901b1@deskjail> <200711261434.45765.qpadla@gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 02:34:40PM +0200, Nikolay Pavlov wrote: > Just want to mention that Linux lm-sensors 3.0.0 was released today. > A few notes that could be interesting for us: > ============= Quote =============== > * It is now a user-space-only package, it no longer contains kernel > drivers. > * The i2c tools have been moved to a separate package (surprisingly > named i2c-tools). > * libsensors' internal version was bumped to 4.0.0, as it has a > completely new API we had to increase the .so version. This new > library contains no chip-specific knowledge, it assumes that hardware > monitoring drivers follow the standard sysfs interface. A very nice > benefit of this is that the size of the library has been divided by > 4 (down from 222 kB to 55 kB on i386). > * Some kernel drivers still don't implement the standard interface > for alarms, so alarm flags won't show. > ============= Quote =============== > > So as you can see it's fully userspace non chip-specific library, based on > sysfs interface. And it has been for quite a while, unless you compiled it on an old Linux kernel (e.g. 2.4.x), which didn't have the required drivers. Brix -- Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@FreeBSD.org> [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: GnuPG signed iD8DBQFHSr+2v+Q4flTiePgRAk5rAKCSlHwSVTLPO9xFCL+g/zqhWZw6hwCgum1M +uLeNGb10lGBpLrTpiR9TKA= =1g2o -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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