acpi_thermal(4) - not relevant for arm?

[Anton Shterenlikht]

>From mikael.urankar at gmail.com Sat Jul 12 20:11:52 2014
>
>2014-07-11 17:21 GMT+02:00 Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bris.ac.uk>:
>> The RPi-B snapshot contains the man page for acpi_thermal(4)
>> but since there is no ACPI, there are no hw.acpi sysctl
>> variables. So, are there any other variables giving
>> temperature on arm?
>
>You can get the temperature of the RPi with the vchiq stuff
>(https://github.com/gonzoua/vchiq-freebsd and
>https://github.com/gonzoua/userland):
>root at raspberry-pi:/opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd measure_temp
>temp=48.7'C
>

ok thanks.

So the port contains
 "ARM side code to interface to:
 EGL, mmal, GLESv2, vcos, openmaxil, vchiq_arm, bcm_host, WFC, OpenVG."

Is there any easy introduction to these?

Thanks

Anton