Subject: Re: SMBus support ?
To: Alexander Yurchenko <grange@rt.mipt.ru>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/27/2003 14:52:05
[ On Friday, June 27, 2003 at 11:59:07 (+0400), Alexander Yurchenko wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: SMBus support ?
>
> How are you going to use this? Hardware monitoring capabilities are
> accessable without smbus (see viaenv(4)).

No, not all of the hardware management capabilities are accessable
without SMbus.

Not all hardware monitoring chips are accessible directly (even when a
driver is available for the chip) and almost no hardware management
information is available directly.

SMbus support is, sadly, lacking.

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