Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Polling for battery stauts and lost keypresses | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Sat, 19 Aug 2006 18:02:18 +0200 |
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On Sat, 2006-08-19 at 11:50 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Wednesday 16 August 2006 03:31, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:17:01 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > > > 2. Quite often there are OEM drivers that are tweaked to a specific > > > hardware and involve hardware-specific hacks. > > > > If I remember correctly (damn, I can't find a way to do a search on > > the LKML archives ...) there was someone working on Dell stuff, at > > least as far as fans and thermal sensors were concerned (based on the > > code from Massimo Dal Zotto) to integrate them with the kernel sensors > > framework. However, some of those patches where NACKed by someone from > > Dell because they were sort of "guessy" about the addresses to poke > > around to get the information, instead of using the data provided by > > the BIOS on where to look for them ... however, there hasn't been any > > news about that that stuff since ... > > > > As far as I remember that person from Dell was not ready to disclose > details of their SMBIOS :( so it naturally went nowhere.
actually Dell did document their smbios ...
http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main/index.html
there was also a posting from Dell with details, but I assume that's included in their libsmbios...
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