VIA ACPI power management controller

[John Baldwin]

On 05-Jun-2003 Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Jun 2003 11:33:13 -0400 (EDT)
> John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 05-Jun-2003 Alexander Leidinger wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > 
>> > is there a way to teach our ACPI implementation about
>> > 
>> > none0 at pci0:7:4: class=0x068000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x30571106 rev=0x40 hdr=0x00
>> >     vendor   = 'VIA Technologies Inc'
>> >     device   = 'VT82C686A/B ACPI Power Management Controller'
>> >     class    = bridge
>> >     subclass = PCI-unknown
>> 
>> It doesn't really need to know about it.  Perhaps acpi should include
>> a dummy driver similar to the 'hostb' driver to "eat" such devices.
> 
> Does this mean it should already display some thermal information, or
> does this mean it just needs to "eat" this device to be able to display
> the thermal information (I assume the information available via (x)mbmon
> should also be available via ACPI...)?

If your ACPI support includes a thermal zone it will show up in the
sysctl.  The only reason to "eat" this device is to keep people from
asking why it is there. :)

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