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Date:      Wed, 25 Jul 2001 19:06:12 +0300 (EEST)
From:      Juha.Nurmela@quicknet.inet.fi
To:        Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: driver writing newbie
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10107251856400.704-100000@lpr-325.cable.inet.fi>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0107251140530.10112-100000@rac2.wam.umd.edu>

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On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote:

> Well, I could do that, but I'd rather write a complete driver with all the
> regular interfaces... (open, close, ioctl, and a specific major/minor in
> the kernel, I'm going to add other chips to this driver eventually) The
> way you are suggesting just opens /dev/io and uses inb and outb to do some
> hacking around I believe.

You are absolutely correct. I was not suggesting this as the proper
approach, but as a throw-away checkpoint only (the mapping registers
seemed inconsistent between OS/motherboard combinations). I suppose
0x70 is for HWMon and 0x90 is for the SMBus function, in Via 686B.

Have you checked NetBSD, the seem to have a framework for temperature
alarms etc.


Juha


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