From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 20 10:48:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA08752 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 10:48:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us [169.244.111.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA08744 for ; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 10:48:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) Received: from celeris (56k-port4002.ime.net [209.90.195.12]) by Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (8.9.1/8.8.8-Loki) with SMTP id NAA00684; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 13:48:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) X-Server-ID: Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us, OCSNet - Orland Maine USA X-Coord-Name: Drew "Droobie" Baxter, OneNetwork Exchange X-Coord-Addr: Droobie@Openlink.orland.me.us X-Coord-Pager: USA: 207-471-2719, http://pagedroo.orland.me.us Message-Id: <4.1.19981220134357.00a7f2d0@genesis.ispace.com> X-Sender: netmonger@genesis.ispace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 13:45:53 -0500 To: Nicolas Souchu From: Drew Baxter Subject: Re: LM75/78 Monitor Probes (was Re: Mainboard Monitor Probes) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Steve Friedrich , takawata@shidahara1.planet.kobe-u.ac.jp 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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