Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 13:45:53 -0500 From: Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com> To: Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@teaser.fr> 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: <4.1.19981220134357.00a7f2d0@genesis.ispace.com> In-Reply-To: <19981220202106.49153@breizh.prism.uvsq.fr> References: <4.1.19981220105116.00c01400@genesis.ispace.com> <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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At 08:21 PM 12/20/98 +0000, Nicolas Souchu wrote: >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. The guys over at netroedge appear to have a rather tacky CGI going. .Seems like they're moving things to/fro NFS to their web server, and using GNUplot.. I think I saw a better graphing program somewhere. Just as long as you can get numbers, comma delimited or something, throwing it through perl would be a breeze. --- 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
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