Re: VIA ACPI power management controller

From: John Baldwin (jhb_at_FreeBSD.org)
Date: 06/06/03

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    Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 12:34:03 -0400 (EDT)
To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>

    On 05-Jun-2003 Alexander Leidinger wrote:
    > On Thu, 05 Jun 2003 11:33:13 -0400 (EDT)
    > John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
    >
    >>
    >> On 05-Jun-2003 Alexander Leidinger wrote:
    >> > Hi,
    >> >
    >> > is there a way to teach our ACPI implementation about
    >> >
    >> > none0@pci0:7:4: class=0x068000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x30571106 rev=0x40 hdr=0x00
    >> > vendor = 'VIA Technologies Inc'
    >> > device = 'VT82C686A/B ACPI Power Management Controller'
    >> > class = bridge
    >> > subclass = PCI-unknown
    >>
    >> It doesn't really need to know about it. Perhaps acpi should include
    >> a dummy driver similar to the 'hostb' driver to "eat" such devices.
    >
    > Does this mean it should already display some thermal information, or
    > does this mean it just needs to "eat" this device to be able to display
    > the thermal information (I assume the information available via (x)mbmon
    > should also be available via ACPI...)?

    If your ACPI support includes a thermal zone it will show up in the
    sysctl. The only reason to "eat" this device is to keep people from
    asking why it is there. :) 

    -- 
John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
"Power Users Use the Power to Serve!"  -  http://www.FreeBSD.org/
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