From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 20 10:21:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA05269 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 10:21:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from reliam.teaser.fr (reliam.teaser.fr [194.51.80.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA05263 for ; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 10:21:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from son@teaser.fr) Received: from teaser.fr (ppp1087-ft.teaser.fr [194.206.156.40]) by reliam.teaser.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1a) with ESMTP id TAA24131; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 19:21:15 +0100 (MET) Received: (from son@localhost) by teaser.fr (8.9.1/8.9.1) id UAA11745; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 20:21:08 GMT (envelope-from son) Message-ID: <19981220202106.49153@breizh.prism.uvsq.fr> Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 20:21:06 +0000 From: Nicolas Souchu To: Drew Baxter Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Steve Friedrich , takawata@shidahara1.planet.kobe-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: LM75/78 Monitor Probes (was Re: Mainboard Monitor Probes) References: <4.1.19981218001152.009ae100@genesis.ispace.com> <4.1.19981218001152.009ae100@genesis.ispace.com> <19981220165555.52107@breizh.prism.uvsq.fr> <4.1.19981220105116.00c01400@genesis.ispace.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981220105116.00c01400@genesis.ispace.com>; from Drew Baxter on Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 10:52:54AM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD breizh 3.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 10:52:54AM -0500, Drew Baxter wrote: > >http://www.netroedge.com/~lm78/ Really interesting! Linux' manpower is really surprising. Discouraging, but good news... all is already done. So, the best will be to port there code to FreeBSD, something like additionnal package to avoid GPL'ed code in the kernel distribution. But, if someone wants to rewrite it... this is not a problem. Controller drivers (PIIX4, VIA) will need particular attention since they're inside the kernel. Thanks to Takanori's work, we'll soon have the PIIX4 support. I don't know yet if the monitoring chips (LMxx and so) are supported with user-land code or kernel code. We initially planed to do this at user level. > >Appears someone is already trying to do it for Linux.. maybe these can be >ported some, not sure.. I hope this we'll be mostly an integration issue. What do you think about it Takanori? > >Aparantely it supports the W83781D, which I guess I have on all of my >Supermicro boards.. > Let's do it then. You could take charge of the GUI interfaces once we have defined kernel/user-low-level interfaces. Depending on there distribution we'll have to make a package or what else specific to FreeBSD. -- nsouch@teaser.fr / nsouch@freebsd.org FreeBSD - Turning PCs into workstations - http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message