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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: "Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [ACPI] Metolious hardware-sensors-using-ACPI specs
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Hi!

> > 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?

Yep, as someone already pointed out.

> 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?

Ouch, I started implementing that hour ago... [Never mind, very little
damage done so far].

But... Metolious sounds *needed*; how do you access voltage sensors
without metolious, in a way that can coexist with ACPI thermal
support?

								Pavel
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