Begin forwarded message: Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:02:33 +0100 (CET) From: Soos Peter <sp at osb.hu> To: Jean Delvare <khali at linux-fr.org> Subject: Re: OMKE and temperature On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Jean Delvare wrote: > I am working with the LM Sensors group (http://www.lm-sensors.nu/) on > I2C/SMBus busses and devices for hardware health monitoring. We have > been informed by Virgil that OMKE was able to report temperature for > his HP Pavilion ze4145, while our own driver doesn't work (if I > understood correctly). My first guess is that you don't use anything > I2C/SMBus related, but some HP-specific interface. Am I right? Yes you hit it ;). I'm read directly from the ACPI Embedded Controller. If available I use ACPI ec_read function if not I use my own one. See the http://sf.net/projects/omke for details. > If this is the case, well, there isn't anything we can do (since I > don't think we want to support very specific methods, nor any > non-I2C/SMBus one). It'd be good to create hooks in the kernel for getting infos about hardware, and every module can use them if wants. See console_blank_hook() in console and apm/omnibook code for examlpe. Regards, -- So?s P?ter Pannonhalmi F?ap?ts?g / Archabbey of Pannonhalma H-9090 Pannonhalma, V?r 1. Tel: +3696570189, Fax: +3696470011 -- Jean Delvare http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/
