Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 13:24:14 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@teaser.fr> Cc: Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Steve Friedrich <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com>, takawata@shidahara1.planet.kobe-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: Mainboard Monitor Probes Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.981220132306.8357C-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <19981220165555.52107@breizh.prism.uvsq.fr>
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Whistle has some basic support for the LM80 power-supply and environmental monitor chip. When I port it back to the IICbus generic code it may supply a basis to work on. On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Nicolas Souchu wrote: > On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 12:17:31AM -0500, Drew Baxter wrote: > > > >Maybe someone has brought this up before, Didn't really know how to go about searching for it on the FreeBSD search page. > > > >My Supermicro P6SBA Mainboard (like many Pentium II boards) has 11 hardware monitors installed. Aparantely these are linked to the BIOS, and the Super Doctor software for Win* directly communicates with it to give realtime voltages and temperatures. > > > >The question is, is there currently any way to access these levels under FreeBSD? This would be pretty nice information to throw into some sort of an administration CGI or status CGI. Maybe I've just been hitting the caffiene too hard... naah. > > > >If there is actually one or it's been brought up, I apologize in advance. Was not quite sure if "Cool Mainboard Temperature Thingy" would be a valid search criteria :-) > > > > There's some work in progress. The iicbus/smbus framework present in -current > branch provides generic mechanism for I2C and SMBus support. We're working > one the PIIX4 smbus function support (Takanori Watanabe > <takawata@shidahara1.planet.kobe-u.ac.jp>) which is the function present > in newer Intel chips. > > Now the question is "what are the involved monitor components on your board?" > LMxx? W83781? > > You propose a cgi, a great idea. You may want to interface with > "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> > > Nicolas. > > > > >--- > >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 > > > > -- > nsouch@teaser..fr / nsouch@freebsd.org > FreeBSD - Turning PCs into workstations - http://www.FreeBSD.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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