Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 10:17:11 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Mitsuru IWASAKI <iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org> Cc: jhb@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CFR: Generalized power-management interface Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101131014160.14239-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <20010114010440T.iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org>
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On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Mitsuru IWASAKI wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > If we're going to talk about 'health' for a machine and it's components, it
> > should tie in with the SES/SAF-TE driver (for SCSI/FibreChannel).
>
> Yes, but my understanding on SES/SAF-TE is very poor unfortunately :-)
> I think number of hackers who can cover all areas with enough knowledge and
> experience is quite limited, so I prefer dividing it into sub-areas sharing
> upper level framework to make things simple.
> Any volunteers for the design? something like;
>
SAF-TE is nearly a proper subset of SES, and SES covers lots of things
(not just environmental)
health ----+---- power ----+---- apm
| |
| +---- acpi
| |
| +---- SES/SAF-TE
|
+---- thermal --+---- acpi
| |
| +---- SES/SAF-TE
| |
+---- object* --+---- SES/SAF-TE
: :
* An 'object' can be marked as having a fault condition
An object might be a disk drive tray....
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