Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Dec 2002 23:40:57 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [ACPI] Metolious hardware-sensors-using-ACPI specs |
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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?
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