Re: dbcool, envsys, powerd shutting down my machine

[Julian Coleman <jdc%coris.org.uk@localhost>]

Hi,

> The above is not necessarily correct -- many of the chips supported by
> the lm(4) driver, on NetBSD, OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD, certainly do,
> in fact, implement a whole bunch of fan-controlling features; see
> http://sensors.cnst.su/fanctl/ for a sample BSD implementation of the
> fan controlling logic.

Ah - I looked at the LM manuals, as I had the references handy, and
assumed the others were similar.  They are almost different enough to
have separate drivers.  However, I think that it makes sense to add
the changes in the patch to our driver.

> Winbond W83627HF is supported by both http://mdoc.su/o,n,d/wbsio.4 and
> http://mdoc.su/n,o,d/lm.4, and is one of the chips supported by the
> fanctl patch above, too.

Looks like wbsio handles the attachment glue (rather than lm at iic).

> However, the above manual from Tyan doesn't appear to specify how
> exactly are the fans actually wired up (e.g., to which pins on which
> chip).

That seems fairly standard.  If the firmware can display the sensor
values, it's possible to do some correlation, but otherwise I haven't
found a good way, especially with the range of temperatures and voltage
sources that can be measured.

As an example where the firmware can show the values, I can translate
sensors on a Sun fire V240:

[adm1026hm0]
               F0.RS:      5720                                       RPM
  ...
        MB.P0.T_CORE:    47.000                                      degC
  ...
       MB.V_GBE_+2V5:     2.508                                         V
  ...
[lmtemp0]
            MB.T_ENC:    11.000                                      degC

which is nice.

Regards,

J

PS.  Approximate translations:

  F0.RS		fan 0 rotational speed
  MB.P0.T_CORE	main board processor 0 temperature (core)
  MB.V_GBE_+2V5 main board gigabit ethernet +2.5V
  MB.T_ENC	main board temperature (enclosure)

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