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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
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