From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 23 11:52:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA29729 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 11:52:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles246.castles.com [208.214.165.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA29724 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 11:52:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA03752; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 11:49:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199812231949.LAA03752@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Nicolas Souchu cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mainboard Monitor Probes (Linux port too hard?) In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Dec 1998 01:12:26 GMT." <19981222011226.50577@breizh.prism.uvsq.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 11:49:41 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 01:24:14PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > >Whistle has some basic support for the LM80 power-supply and environmental > >monitor chip. When I port it back to the IICbus generic code it may > >supply a basis to work on. > > Sure. We'll also have to consider Linux stuff. Or at least basic compatibility with it, yes. > It may be a hard issue since they rely on there /proc and module > loadable mechanism. We should certainly use kld too. Indeed. So when will ppbus move to the new-bus model and become KLDable? > Another problem is the license... I think our designs are sufficiently different that all we're going to get from their code are ideas, so the licenses aren't necessarily a real problem... -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message