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From: "Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover@intel.com>
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Subject: RE: [ACPI] Metolious hardware-sensors-using-ACPI specs
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 10:21:22 -0800
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> From: Pavel Machek [mailto:pavel@suse.cz] 
> 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?

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?

Regards -- Andy
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