Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:45:21 +0800 From: Ganbold <ganbold@micom.mng.net> To: Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-audit@freebsd.org, jonathan@buzzard.me.uk, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NOT A [GPL License violation] Message-ID: <452B4181.7060800@micom.mng.net> In-Reply-To: <20061009090344.GN4945@poupinou.org> References: <4528EF25.1000103@buzzard.me.uk> <45298188.1080201@damogran.de> <20061008.170130.-2009526630.imp@bsdimp.com> <20061009090344.GN4945@poupinou.org>
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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, >
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