From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 27 07:52:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA04962 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 07:52:31 -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 HAA04947 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 07:52:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) Received: from celeris (56k-port4013.ime.net [209.90.195.23]) by ime.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA12467; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 10:52:02 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.1.19981227104829.00a84470@genesis.ispace.com> X-Sender: netmonger@genesis.ispace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 10:49:32 -0500 To: Nicolas Souchu From: Drew Baxter Subject: Re: Mainboard Monitor Probes (Linux port too hard?) Cc: Julian Elischer , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Steve Friedrich , takawata@shidahara1.planet.sci.kobe-u.ac.jp In-Reply-To: <19981226185257.20720@breizh.prism.uvsq.fr> References: <4.1.19981223152411.00b4d2d0@genesis.ispace.com> <19981220165555.52107@breizh.prism.uvsq.fr> <19981222011226.50577@breizh.prism.uvsq.fr> <4.1.19981223152411.00b4d2d0@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 06:52 PM 12/26/98 +0000, Nicolas Souchu wrote: >On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 03:27:00PM -0500, Drew Baxter wrote: >> >>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. > >Certainly. Looking at there code more deeply, most of it rely on the /proc >architecture. I proposed them to move there code from outside the kernel >and define a /dev interface we could be compatible with. /dev is the best >solution I think since it could be shared with *BSD. > >Moreover, a /dev interface with ioctls would be really simple... with smb(4) >as a start point. /usr/include/machine/smb.h defines ioctls, but we'll >have to handle timing constraints too. > >A PIIX4 driver is available at http://www.freebsd.org/~nsouch/iicbus.html > >You may try it with smb(4) if you have the hardware. > Eh I'm already a few steps ahead.. installed it, but having some issues with it.. I'm doing a make installworld today (did buildworld last night), maybe that is why it didn't patch properly. --- 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