Messages in this thread | | | From | "Grover, Andrew" <> | Subject | RE: [ACPI] Metolious hardware-sensors-using-ACPI specs | Date | Mon, 16 Dec 2002 10:21:22 -0800 |
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> From: Pavel Machek [mailto:pavel@suse.cz] > Is it goign to be implemented in linux-acpi? > > I took a look at specs at intel, and it has rather funny legaleese:
Wow, is that still on a website somewhere?
So as you may know from looking at the spec, Metolious was a spec that defined a way for platforms to enumerate various motherboard sensors to the OS, for manageability purposes.
It never took off, except for a couple companies that used the Windows driver for other things because they didn't want to write a driver that received ACPI device Notify()s.
The licensing may be weird, but given that there really is no point in implementing it on Linux, does that really matter?
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