 To: Matthew Jacob <> From: Mike Smith <> List: tech-kern Date:
06/03/1998 14:34:29  Environmental and power control issues are
becoming big business it  you have an alternative framework in
mind?  > One of the things that has blocked me from just doing
it (the driver's > been done under solaris for quite some time-
I just have to really port > it- it's a pretty trivail driver)
is I'm not sure what context to report > environmental info in-
I *know* that it will go to SNMP mib at some point, > but I'm
sure there are intermediate states that are worthwhile. I was >
assuming only a character interface that would retrieve SES-like
objects > (they are quite a number of them- enough to possibly
manage most of even > a bacplane monitor). I had also been
puzzling about how to integrate I2C > bus support with this
since a number of systems (e.g., the alpha 41000) > have I2C
support for internal temperature sensors.  implemented, so
there's no precedent for a set of primitive bus   For your
parametric retrieval, depen