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. Ben.
