From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 13 10:17:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A88A837B6A1; Sat, 13 Jan 2001 10:17:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from beppo (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA32556; Sat, 13 Jan 2001 10:17:11 -0800 Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 10:17:11 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Mitsuru IWASAKI Cc: jhb@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CFR: Generalized power-management interface In-Reply-To: <20010114010440T.iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message