i386/73822: [request] add thermal support to ACPI

[Nate Lawson]

The following reply was made to PR i386/73822; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Nate Lawson <nate at root.org>
To: pav at FreeBSD.org
Cc: "R. B. Riddick" <arne_woerner at yahoo.com>, freebsd-acpi at FreeBSD.org,
        bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: i386/73822: [request] add thermal support to ACPI
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 13:51:43 -0700

 Pav Lucistnik wrote:
 > R. B. Riddick pí¹e v ne 28. 05. 2006 v 05:56 -0700:
 >> --- Pav Lucistnik <pav at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
 >>> Does your /var/run/dmesg have a line like this?
 >>>   acpi_tz0: <Thermal Zone> on acpi0
 >>>
 >> Nope. I grepped (case insensitive) for "tz" and "thermal" and just found lines
 >> with "adjkerntz"...
 >>
 >>> Are you running GENERIC kernel?
 >>>
 >> Nope. A custom kernel with acpi.ko module:
 >> % kldstat
 >> Id Refs Address    Size     Name
 >>  1    3 0xc0400000 36db84   kernel
 >>  2    1 0xc076e000 58554    acpi.ko
 > 
 > Looks like it's not probing thermal zone on your hardware.
 > Can you post us a verbose dmesg output?
 > And relevant part of messages from Linux boot, for comparision?
 > 
 
 Many systems don't have an ACPI thermal zone.  So you just use mbmon or 
 some other device-specific SMBUS monitoring tool.
 
 -- 
 Nate