Re: New conflict message in latest GIT

[Fabio Comolli]

Hi.

On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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