aibs(4): ASUSTeK AI Booster (ACPI ATK0110) Hardware Monitor

Rui Paulo rpaulo at freebsd.org
Tue Apr 6 10:14:24 UTC 2010


Hi,

On 5 Apr 2010, at 06:59, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:

> Dear freebsd-{acpi,drivers,hardware}@, 
> 
> Attached patch provides support for the hardware monitoring capabilities that are present in many modern desktop motherboards from ASUS featuring the ATK0110 ACPI device. 
> 
> This driver, aibs(4), is a fresh replacement for FreeBSD's existing acpi_aiboost(4).  The new aibs(4) driver has the following advantages when compared to the old acpi_aiboost(4): 
> * the sensors are now provided through the user-serviceable hw.acpi.aibs0  tree (with a subtree for each sensor type), instead of the Newbus-internal  dev.acpi_aiboost.0 tree that contains various nonprime data at the same  level as the actual sensors 

I was under the impression that this the right way in FreeBSD.

Regards,
--
Rui Paulo



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