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Date:      Mon, 06 Apr 1998 22:59:25 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Pete Carah <pete@ns.altadena.net>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DMI etc 
Message-ID:  <199804070559.WAA00734@antipodes.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:00:50 PST." <199804010300.TAA28312@ns.altadena.net> 

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> Is there any plan to support some of the environmental monitoring functions
> in modern motherboards, like the power supply voltages and fan RPM?
> (and cpu chip temperature, etc)

Plans, sure.

> (or are there specs that tell one where these show up, memory mapped
> or I/O mapped, etc etc, and I could have a go at it.)

The DMI taskforce (www.dmtf.org) publishes various standards describing 
this.  There is code in -current to locate the DMI BIOS signature, but 
no more (yet).  

An enthusiastic DMI developer would be welcomed with open arms.

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