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Date:      Sun, 20 Dec 1998 20:21:06 +0000
From:      Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@teaser.fr>
To:        Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Steve Friedrich <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com>, takawata@shidahara1.planet.kobe-u.ac.jp
Subject:   Re: LM75/78 Monitor Probes (was Re: Mainboard Monitor Probes)
Message-ID:  <19981220202106.49153@breizh.prism.uvsq.fr>
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981220105116.00c01400@genesis.ispace.com>; from Drew Baxter on Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 10:52:54AM -0500
References:  <4.1.19981218001152.009ae100@genesis.ispace.com> <4.1.19981218001152.009ae100@genesis.ispace.com> <19981220165555.52107@breizh.prism.uvsq.fr> <4.1.19981220105116.00c01400@genesis.ispace.com>

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On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 10:52:54AM -0500, Drew Baxter wrote:
>
>http://www.netroedge.com/~lm78/

Really interesting! Linux' manpower is really surprising. Discouraging,
but good news... all is already done.

So, the best will be to port there code to FreeBSD, something like
additionnal package to avoid GPL'ed code in the kernel distribution. But,
if someone wants to rewrite it... this is not a problem. Controller drivers
(PIIX4, VIA) will need particular attention since they're inside the
kernel. Thanks to Takanori's work, we'll soon have the PIIX4 support.

I don't know yet if the monitoring chips (LMxx and so) are supported with
user-land code or kernel code. We initially planed to do this at user level.

>
>Appears someone is already trying to do it for Linux.. maybe these can be
>ported some, not sure..

I hope this we'll be mostly an integration issue. What do you think about
it Takanori?

>
>Aparantely it supports the W83781D, which I guess I have on all of my
>Supermicro boards..
>

Let's do it then. You could take charge of the GUI interfaces once we have
defined kernel/user-low-level interfaces. Depending on there distribution
we'll have to make a package or what else specific to FreeBSD.

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