On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 08:58:51AM -0400, John Bleichert wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > That's a supported chipset:
> >
> > happy-idiot-talk:~:% grep viapm /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT
> > # viapm VIA VT82C586B,596,686A and VT8233 SMBus controllers
> > device viapm
> >
> > You need to add:
> >
> > device smbus
> > device viapm
> > device smb
> >
>
> Where did you get 'viapm' from? Are *all* the possibilities documented
> somewhere? Is there a central resource for all the possible kernel
> config entries ? After seeing your post I found the
> viapm(4) man page but I never would have known about it otherwise.
The LINT kernel configuration is meant to contain all possible devices
and options. As I remember I was trying to set up monitoring of my
motherboard and CPU temperatures, which I knew from previous
experience required use of SMBus devices, so I experimented with some
of the stuff in the LINT kernel until I found something that worked.
Cheers,
Matthew
PS. You might find the sysutils/xmbmon port interesting.
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