Subject: Re: support for unconfigured PCI devices, esp. SD card reader
To: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/29/2007 23:32:34
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:29:13 +0200
Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:20:39PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:50:43 +0200
> > Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > -current as of yesterday has support for the SMBus controller.
> > > Not worth spending time on it, though.
> > 
> > I'll bite -- what is an SMBus controller for?
> 
> SMBus is a lot like I2C, and you will usually find various kind of
> sensors attached there.
> 
Sounds good -- do we support many of these sensors?


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb