From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 23 12:29:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA04145 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 12:29:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ime.net (ime.net [209.90.192.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA04134 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 12:29:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) Received: from celeris (56k-port4002.ime.net [209.90.195.12]) by ime.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA10596; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 15:29:24 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.1.19981223152411.00b4d2d0@genesis.ispace.com> X-Sender: netmonger@genesis.ispace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 15:27:00 -0500 To: Nicolas Souchu , Julian Elischer From: Drew Baxter Subject: Re: Mainboard Monitor Probes (Linux port too hard?) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Steve Friedrich , takawata@shidahara1.planet.kobe-u.ac.jp In-Reply-To: <19981222011226.50577@breizh.prism.uvsq.fr> References: <19981220165555.52107@breizh.prism.uvsq.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 01:12 AM 12/22/98 +0000, Nicolas Souchu wrote: > >Sure. We'll also have to consider Linux stuff. > The LM80 software may be able to be retrofitted with the LM78 code, I'm not sure how far off they are between each other, maybe they're compatible. >It may be a hard issue since they rely on there /proc and module >loadable mechanism. We should certainly use kld too. > >Another problem is the license... > The Linux stuff is GPL.. Perhaps it'd be more logical to use the Linux material only as a reference and not to extract code from it.. That'd be a sound way to get around that. Since most of the code does indeed rely on the /proc, that's about all it's good for. --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM) OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange, Bangor Maine USA http://www.droo.orland.me.us PGP ID: 409A1F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message