linux-kernel - Re: New conflict message in latest GIT

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Message-ID: <b637ec0b0808091146o7ce25033m13b544ae7d8b5352@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 9 Aug 2008 20:46:21 +0200
From:	"Fabio Comolli" <fabio.comolli@...il.com>
To:	"Jean Delvare" <khali@...ux-fr.org>
Cc:	"Bjorn Helgaas" <bjorn.helgaas@...com>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Rene Herman" <rene.herman@...access.nl>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...l.org>, "Thomas Renninger" <trenn@...e.de>
Subject: Re: New conflict message in latest GIT

Hi.

On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 18:32:31 +0200, Fabio Comolli wrote:
>> Anyway, as usual linux is not supported at all on this laptop, it came
>> with XP. One thing that puzzles me is why bothering adding a
>> monitoring chip for which drivers do not exist for any OS?
>
> If you refer to the PC87591: that's a Super-I/O chip, including many
> different functions. Hardware monitoring is only one of these
> functions. Manufacturers might be interested in some of the other
> features and chose this chip because of them. Windows doesn't support
> hardware monitoring at all without 3rd party tools anyway, so that's
> hardly a decision factor for vendors.
>
> Additionally, on laptops, thermal management is most often done by ACPI
> rather than native OS drivers. Maybe the ACPI implementation in your
> laptop actually gets the temperature from the PC87591.
>

Oh, I see. Thanks for the explanation.

> --
> Jean Delvare

Regards,
Fabio


>
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