Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753420AbYHISqw (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Aug 2008 14:46:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751516AbYHISqZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Aug 2008 14:46:25 -0400 Received: from yx-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.44.30]:15693 "EHLO yx-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751196AbYHISqY (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Aug 2008 14:46:24 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=QKKobUkPgk1cvZTst073WIPtYBVpQoURpPQ7A4rr6PKZ87KcerJI2PMJh8v9DB6xz2 Vrhl6BLvtebwaicBvwycZiwZVCZDHkI5y/iljLvLIkQUVroWJmbrrBOM75jgUfDgRYXL 0ptYiZTU4KLWaB9cLKuDglxAvUaDMGgQKddEg= Message-ID: Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 20:46:21 +0200 From: "Fabio Comolli" To: "Jean Delvare" Subject: Re: New conflict message in latest GIT Cc: "Bjorn Helgaas" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" , "Rene Herman" , "Andrew Morton" , "Thomas Renninger" In-Reply-To: <20080809190336.05e84068@hyperion.delvare> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200807231256.42743.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <20080809181358.5c9da790@hyperion.delvare> <20080809190336.05e84068@hyperion.delvare> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1256 Lines: 35 Hi. On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Jean Delvare wrote: > On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 18:32:31 +0200, Fabio Comolli wrote: >> Anyway, as usual linux is not supported at all on this laptop, it came >> with XP. One thing that puzzles me is why bothering adding a >> monitoring chip for which drivers do not exist for any OS? > > If you refer to the PC87591: that's a Super-I/O chip, including many > different functions. Hardware monitoring is only one of these > functions. Manufacturers might be interested in some of the other > features and chose this chip because of them. Windows doesn't support > hardware monitoring at all without 3rd party tools anyway, so that's > hardly a decision factor for vendors. > > Additionally, on laptops, thermal management is most often done by ACPI > rather than native OS drivers. Maybe the ACPI implementation in your > laptop actually gets the temperature from the PC87591. > Oh, I see. Thanks for the explanation. > -- > Jean Delvare Regards, Fabio > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/