> From: Pavel Machek [mailto:[email protected]]
> 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
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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