From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: "Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover@intel.com>
Cc: ACPI mailing list <acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ACPI] Metolious hardware-sensors-using-ACPI specs
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 23:40:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021216224057.GE20773@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EDC461A30AC4D511ADE10002A5072CAD04C7A5A4@orsmsx119.jf.intel.com>
Hi!
> > Is it goign to be implemented in linux-acpi?
> >
> > I took a look at specs at intel, and it has rather funny legaleese:
>
> Wow, is that still on a website somewhere?
Yep, as someone already pointed out.
> So as you may know from looking at the spec, Metolious was a spec that
> defined a way for platforms to enumerate various motherboard sensors to the
> OS, for manageability purposes.
>
> It never took off, except for a couple companies that used the Windows
> driver for other things because they didn't want to write a driver that
> received ACPI device Notify()s.
> The licensing may be weird, but given that there really is no point in
> implementing it on Linux, does that really matter?
Ouch, I started implementing that hour ago... [Never mind, very little
damage done so far].
But... Metolious sounds *needed*; how do you access voltage sensors
without metolious, in a way that can coexist with ACPI thermal
support?
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-16 22:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-16 18:21 Grover, Andrew
2002-12-16 18:33 ` PSI-Systems
2002-12-16 22:40 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2002-12-16 23:02 Grover, Andrew
2002-12-16 23:15 ` Pavel Machek
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