[patch] add processor and fan support back into HAL.

[Richard Hughes]

On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 15:56 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
>I've committed this but I changed system.processor to processor.

Oops, sorry. I was being so careful too! Lots of patches - lots of trees
- no revision system. I'm thinking of tla, what do you guys use?
>
>At some
>point we want to rework this when cpu hotplugging and such interfaces
>land in the kernel properly. The interface we expose shouldn't change
>though.

Sure, would that be exposed in sysfs?

>>I guess the next logical step is to tackle video adaptors and the holy
>>grail SetLCDBrightness()
>
>I actually think we should wait with that - there's some good stuff
>going on in the kernel community to merge fbdev, drm and fix up a lot of
>stuff (including exposing cards, heads and monitors in sysfs (with
>hotplug events for monitor connect/disconnect)) and my guess is that
>these new drivers will expose this kind of functionality.

I've noticed that too - but I must admit I have no idea of the general
plan. Anyone got any links?

Richard



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