Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 10:19:03 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: VIA ACPI power management controller Message-ID: <3EDF7B87.A453F6F8@mindspring.com> References: <20030605161425.71dec07a.Alexander@Leidinger.net> <20030605175636.4f7f48b9.Alexander@Leidinger.net>
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Alexander Leidinger wrote: > On Thu, 05 Jun 2003 11:33:13 -0400 (EDT) > John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > It doesn't really need to know about it. Perhaps acpi should include > > a dummy driver similar to the 'hostb' driver to "eat" such devices. > > Does this mean it should already display some thermal information, or > does this mean it just needs to "eat" this device to be able to display > the thermal information (I assume the information available via (x)mbmon > should also be available via ACPI...)? Yes, if you have a BIOS that knows about all the ACPI features, and knows how to talk to the thermal monitoring parts of the chip. Again, this is a BIOS issue; you should contact your motherboard manufacturer. -- Terry
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