Re: hardware-monitor needs build on powerpc
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 08:56:23AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 21:03, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 05:03:50PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 13:25, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> > > > This is the last thing preventing the new lm-sensors and
> > > > various depending packages from making it into 'sarge'.
> > >
> > > I don't like the idea of lm-sensors mucking with the i2c
> > > busses on Apple machines, not AT ALL. I _MUCH_ prefer
> > > dedicated drivers to be written specifically for those
> > > machines that know what they are doing.
> >
> > Well, hardware-monitor packages previous to the new lm-sensor where
> > still buildable on powerpc, with this feature disabled.
> >
> > Anyway, what you suggest here would be something more related to
> > lm-sensors, and having nothing to do with hardware-monitor, right ?
>
> What I suggest is that if we ever have drivers for the thermal sensors
> & fan controllers of the Macs, is that those driver are specifically
> written for the Mac and not some "generic" driver for whatever
> thermostat chip.
Yeah, well, i guess you are best placed to write those :)
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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