Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 9 Aug 2008 20:46:21 +0200 | From | "Fabio Comolli" <> | Subject | Re: New conflict message in latest GIT |
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Hi.
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> wrote: > On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 18:32:31 +0200, Fabio Comolli wrote: >> Anyway, as usual linux is not supported at all on this laptop, it came >> with XP. One thing that puzzles me is why bothering adding a >> monitoring chip for which drivers do not exist for any OS? > > If you refer to the PC87591: that's a Super-I/O chip, including many > different functions. Hardware monitoring is only one of these > functions. Manufacturers might be interested in some of the other > features and chose this chip because of them. Windows doesn't support > hardware monitoring at all without 3rd party tools anyway, so that's > hardly a decision factor for vendors. > > Additionally, on laptops, thermal management is most often done by ACPI > rather than native OS drivers. Maybe the ACPI implementation in your > laptop actually gets the temperature from the PC87591. >
Oh, I see. Thanks for the explanation.
> -- > Jean Delvare
Regards, Fabio
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