Hi Luca, On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:33:56 +0100, Luca Tettamanti wrote: > Motherboard vendors usually provide tools for $(TheOtherOS) that can > read from all thermal / fan / voltage / whatever sensors, so I guess > it's possible to make the ACPI driver and the "raw" one play nice with > each other[1]. > > Luca > [1] Unless their solution is "poke at the hardware and hope that ACPI > doesn't blow up", that is. Without the sources it's hard to tell. And all these applications are vendor-specific, so if they indeed have ways to avoid conflicting accesses between ACPI and the rest of the system, these ways are likely to be vendor-specific as well, and not documented. Either way, this means we need the support from hardware vendors to solve this concurrent access problem, and unfortunately I doubt this happens anytime soon :( -- Jean Delvare
