Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:38:04 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Andrew Boothman <andrew@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DMI Support Message-ID: <199912140138.RAA02033@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Dec 1999 23:37:23 GMT." <XFMail.991213233723.andrew@ukug.uk.FreeBSD.org>
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> What's the current situation with DMI support on FreeBSD? Basically, there is none. I spent some time looking at it, and finally concluded that there wasn't much to be gained (for me) from it, and moved on. From a functional standpoint DMI doesn't actually offer us very much; ACPI is a closer match to our needs. > Is that still accurate? Do we have any plans to add more support? There are no active plans, no. > This is the kind of thing that I would LOVE to help out on myself, but my > knowledge of FreeBSD isn't detailed enough, and my knowledge of OS programming > is even worse! :) It'd be a good project to cut your teeth on, especially integrating the DMI information into a backend suitable for use with an SNMP server. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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