On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 11:11 -0400, Luca Tettamanti wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 3:23 PM, John Keates <j.keates@xxxxxx> wrote: > > In that case, would it be worth it to try out the HECI interface to read sensors via Intel QST? > > Maybe... I've seen the IME driver in staging, so I guess Intel is > planning to do something with it. > I don't know if it's already usable though. Hi Luca, last time I checked, it did not have an in-kernel API, and could thus not be used for writing a hwmon driver without significant work. Would be great if someone would pick that up, of course ... Guenter > > Or maybe find out how the Asus PC Probe2 reads the data? > > No idea; older versions did use ACPI (my not-so-old M5A still has the > ATK interface and the windows tool uses it). > You could entertain yourself with a disassembler ;-) > > > Because I've seen that app run on other systems @ windows, > > and it does have realtime sensor output. Or is dat WMI based? Because if ASUS is moving away from atk0110, but still supplies > > working probe apps, there must be another realtime interface. > > I don't think it's WMI based, maybe they just access the sensor > directly; if e.g. they know that the notification method (_L16) is > never called after the boot then it's safe to do it. > > Luca > > _______________________________________________ > lm-sensors mailing list > lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
