Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 17:15:52 -0500 From: James Housley <jim@thehousleys.net> To: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@messagingdirect.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ABIT KT7 and temp monitoring Message-ID: <3AA80497.AF57C2EA@thehousleys.net> References: <200103082209.f28M9hU04940@gollum.esys.ca>
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Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > > > healthd works fine on systems that use supported monitoring chips. > > Unfortunately the number of chips that healthd supports is pretty small > > compared to monitoring tools on other platforms, e.g. Motherboard Monitor on > > Windows or LM Sensors on Linux. > > Which says to me that the interface should be abstracted out. > Something like a device driver that presents a /dev device that > you can read or ioctl to get the information in a somewhat chip- > independent fashion. > Some of this is being done in -CURRENT with the APIC device. This will allow more standard access to these values on the newer PIII MBs, hopefully. Jim -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign . \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail . X - NO Word docs in e-mail . / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- jeh@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power to Serve jim@TheHousleys.Net http://www.TheHousleys.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- Progress (n) : What led from smart users in front of dumb terminals to dumb users in front of smart terminals. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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