Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:33:58 +0900 From: Takanori Watanabe <takawata@init-main.com> To: "Constantine A. Murenin" <cnst@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: aibs(4): ASUSTeK AI Booster (ACPI ATK0110) Hardware Monitor Message-ID: <201004052033.o35KXwHq089853@sana.init-main.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:59:47 -0400." <20100405055947.GA3544@hita.home.const.name>
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In message <20100405055947.GA3544@hita.home.const.name>, "Constantine A. Mureni
n" さんいわく:
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>Dear freebsd-{acpi,drivers,hardware}@,
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>Attached patch provides support for the hardware monitoring capabilities
>that are present in many modern desktop motherboards from ASUS featuring
>the ATK0110 ACPI device.
>
>
>This driver, aibs(4), is a fresh replacement for FreeBSD's existing
>acpi_aiboost(4). The new aibs(4) driver has the following advantages
>when compared to the old acpi_aiboost(4):
>
>* the sensors are now provided through the user-serviceable hw.acpi.aibs0
> tree (with a subtree for each sensor type), instead of the Newbus-internal
> dev.acpi_aiboost.0 tree that contains various nonprime data at the same
> level as the actual sensors
>
>* the supposed range specifications are now reported
> for each input that is being sensed
>
>* the nature of the new tree, with "volt", "temp" and "fan" subtrees,
> allows one to specifically query for the sensors of a certain type
>
>* the temperature sensors are exported in the temperature 'K' units through
> sysctl(9), such that they are pretty-printed by sysctl(8) automatically
I don't think there is not so large advantage, but
I will not make an objection in that you want to
maintain your driver long time. (I don't have access
to motherboard with ATK0110 any more.)
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