DMI detection

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I'm going to work on putting DMI detection in i2c-piix4.
Any voluteers for doing the same in perl for sensors-detect? (please!)


"Mark D. Studebaker" wrote:
> 
> I haven't seen where doing a 'make' will write DMI stuff to .config.
> But you never know. Not that you can look in .config from a running
> kernel anyway...
> 
> I don't think we have any choice but to copy what we need from
> dmi_scan.c and put it in piix4.c.
> And copy dmidecode.c (that I found on Alan's server and I sent you)
> and port it to perl and put it in sensors-detect. Yuck.
> 
> Actually I think we should take i8k.c and make it a combination bus/chip
> driver
> for our package. THAT would be a good project.
> 
> phil at netroedge.com wrote:
> >
> > Oh, incidently, I thought I read that Alan's DMI stuff writes stuff to
> > .config?  It might be much easier to use DMI if we can read his
> > results instead of doing the horrible copy-and-paste stuff which was
> > done in drivers/char/i8k.c.
> >
> > Phil
> >
> > --
> > Philip Edelbrock -- IS Manager -- Edge Design, Corvallis, OR
> >    phil at netroedge.com -- http://www.netroedge.com/~phil
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