Re: Sensors on Asus P2B-F?

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, Hauke Fath wrote:

> I cleaned up, cvs update'd the tree and re-applied the patches with 'patch 
> -l', this time successfully. Turned out your patch file came with WinDOS line 
> endings, though, which in the case of files.acpi wasn't suffered well.
>
> The kernel compiles now, but both it and your kernel do not attach acpismbus* 
> etc.

Well, looking further at the mbmon sources, it seems that it doesn't use 
ACPI to access the I2C bus.  Instead, it seems to implement its own 
user-mode driver directly to the piixpm (or other) controller!  This 
only works, though, on i386 - on amd64 it fails to access the hardware.

I have not yet gotten deep enough into the code to figure out exactly 
how this user-mode driver works.  I'll also do a bit more digging to 
figure out why adding the I2C_SCAN code seems to stabilize things for 
your machine.


> >         include         "arch/i386/conf/GENERIC"
>
> Use 'MONOLITHIC' here, maybe?  ;)

Yes, sorry.  I've replaced with a MONOLITHIC kernel, available at

        ftp://ftp.whooppee.com/public/netbsd-i386-TEST.gz

SHA1 (netbsd-i386-TEST.gz) = 4027a47088393dfdf1886816067044f6094d2c01




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