Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Mar 2002 02:03:28 +0100 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: Congrats Marcelo, |
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On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 01:13:09AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > DMI can help in a much more productive way. DMI tells you the type of > sensor in the machine. Once you are using ACPI though you talk to ACPI > and it talks to the smbus etc and knows whats in the box
Given the fears of what happens when you look at i2c/smbus etc the wrong way, is this something we can rely on DMI tables to get right ? When they can't get cachesize info right, I begin to question their ability to describe a temperature sensor.
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