Re: VIA ACPI power management controller

On Thu, 05 Jun 2003 11:33:13 -0400 (EDT)
John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> 
> On 05-Jun-2003 Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > is there a way to teach our ACPI implementation about
> > 
> > none0_at_pci0:7:4: class=0x068000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x30571106 rev=0x40 hdr=0x00
> >     vendor   = 'VIA Technologies Inc'
> >     device   = 'VT82C686A/B ACPI Power Management Controller'
> >     class    = bridge
> >     subclass = PCI-unknown
> 
> It doesn't really need to know about it.  Perhaps acpi should include
> a dummy driver similar to the 'hostb' driver to "eat" such devices.

Does this mean it should already display some thermal information, or
does this mean it just needs to "eat" this device to be able to display
the thermal information (I assume the information available via (x)mbmon
should also be available via ACPI...)?

(8) root_at_ttyp1 # sysctl hw.acpi
hw.acpi.supported_sleep_state: S1 S4 S5 
hw.acpi.power_button_state: S5
hw.acpi.sleep_button_state: S1
hw.acpi.lid_switch_state: S1
hw.acpi.standby_state: S1
hw.acpi.suspend_state: S3
hw.acpi.sleep_delay: 0
hw.acpi.s4bios: 1
hw.acpi.verbose: 0
hw.acpi.disable_on_poweroff: 1
hw.acpi.cpu.max_speed: 2
hw.acpi.cpu.current_speed: 2
hw.acpi.cpu.performance_speed: 2
hw.acpi.cpu.economy_speed: 1

Bye,
Alexander.

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