From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 2 20:06:08 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49598106564A for ; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 20:06:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marius@alchemy.franken.de) Received: from alchemy.franken.de (alchemy.franken.de [194.94.249.214]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0F9D8FC1A for ; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 20:06:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from alchemy.franken.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by alchemy.franken.de (8.14.4/8.14.4/ALCHEMY.FRANKEN.DE) with ESMTP id oA2K59li020999; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 21:05:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marius@alchemy.franken.de) Received: (from marius@localhost) by alchemy.franken.de (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id oA2K59AS020998; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 21:05:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marius) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 21:05:09 +0100 From: Marius Strobl To: "Ekki 'CyberRatz' Gehm" Message-ID: <20101102200509.GA20864@alchemy.franken.de> References: <4CCFF565.7060503@doom-labs.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4CCFF565.7060503@doom-labs.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware Monitor for E420R X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 20:06:08 -0000 On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 12:26:29PM +0100, Ekki 'CyberRatz' Gehm wrote: > HeyHo! > > I installed FBSD to an Enterprise 420R lately and it runs great! Now I > was wondering if there is a posibility to read out hardware stats such > as core temp etc. (eg something like healthd on x86 platforms). > Unfortunately I dont know if it is supported at all. > > Is there something in the portstree for this issue? I was trying to find > s.th. but I acc. didn't find anything. > Unlike as in the x86 world there's no common interface for querying such information on sun4u machines but rather they are accessible via model-specific (apparently Sun had no need to make the life of third party developers easy with either their hardware or Solaris and generally liked to re-invent the wheel) solutions if implemented at all, which FreeBSD supports none so far. Partly this is due to the amount of work involved to make this work and also partly due to the fact that FreeBSD lacks an generic actuator- and sensors-framework (one actually shouldn't need to re-implement access to sensors, fan-control subroutines etc for every model) to build upon. However, typically the ALOM, LOM, ILOM, RSC etc management cards also allow easy access to such information via the `show environment` and `showenvironment` commands respectively, I'm not sure E420R uses one of these though. Marius