From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 10 06:45:45 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EDBF16A415; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 06:45:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ganbold@micom.mng.net) Received: from publicd.ub.mng.net (publicd.ub.mng.net [202.179.0.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEF3443D53; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 06:45:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ganbold@micom.mng.net) Received: from [202.179.0.164] (helo=[192.168.0.18]) by publicd.ub.mng.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.61 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1GXBMg-0002lX-2D; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:45:22 +0800 Message-ID: <452B4181.7060800@micom.mng.net> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:45:21 +0800 From: Ganbold User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060612) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bruno Ducrot References: <4528EF25.1000103@buzzard.me.uk> <45298188.1080201@damogran.de> <20061008.170130.-2009526630.imp@bsdimp.com> <20061009090344.GN4945@poupinou.org> In-Reply-To: <20061009090344.GN4945@poupinou.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-audit@freebsd.org, lboehne@damogran.de, jonathan@buzzard.me.uk, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NOT A [GPL License violation] X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 06:45:45 -0000 Bruno Ducrot wrote: > I'm working on Dell's laptop support, even though I'm not > the one who code a tool for a fan control (and I don't > know if such tool under FreeBSD exist). > > Some preminaly code can be found here: > > http://people.FreeBSD.org/~bruno/i8kutils_bsd.tar.bz [1] > http://people.FreeBSD.org/~bruno/acpi_dell.tar.gz [2] > http://people.FreeBSD.org/~bruno/dellctl.tar.gz [3] > > Bruno, Did you make suspend/resume work? Did you make your volume up/down key work? I have Latitude D620 and can't make above work. thanks, Ganbold > For now, the 3 tar ball above have not been publically send to any > public list I'm aware of, because those are only priminally work. > > For [1], people can check I haven't removed any copyright, nor I even > bothered adding my name. In any case, I don't plan to add that one to > the base system. > In fact, I think to remove it from http://people.FreeBSD.org/~bruno/ > in the near future. > > For [2], people can check it's a really preliminary work, and is based > on some calls to ACPI methods under the DSDT. Since it's a really > different approach taken from the driver found under Linux, it's free > from any GPL'ed code. > > Finally [3] is only a userspace tool to control [2]. > > Since [2] and [3] are free from any GPL'ed codes, I consider commiting > them if one day they work. > > Actually I even considered to port [2] under Linux, because this is > the right way to go when ACPI mode is enabled for obvious reason. > The io ports related to the SMM handler are shared, and ACPI take > care to handle an ACPI mutex before entering SMM, that at least might > eliminate strange cases when sometimes i8k doesn't work. > > Cheers, >