03-20-2011
Hi!
This may not be what You want to hear but there are so many stripped down OS-distributions already. Maybe it's part of Your work but I personally wouldn't go through re-inventing the wheel for every hardware that You will need support for. Unless that IS Your goal with Your studies.
FreeDOS, Linux, or BSD based. The have most of what You need for hardware support and fit on anything from a floppy to a credit card sized CD. And on lots hardware architectures. The first thing I would do is to take any of those, maybe even a normal distro, auto login a user (from inittab or tty1.conf) and start the desired application. No window managers or other fluff. Maybe You don't need a GUI? Even easier. Determine what You can remove in terms of services and unused programs. Most drivers are modularised. But all that is with regard to disc space, if it ain't running, it won't consume any RAM or CPU.
And please be aware that there is a big difference between what comes with the OS and the user environment, that's usually what makes the distributions unique. The OS (kernel and drivers) doesn't contain very much "user friendly mess". And that is a good thing!
Best regards,
Lakris
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
acpi_aiboost
ACPI_AIBOOST(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual ACPI_AIBOOST(4)
NAME
acpi_aiboost -- ASUS AI Booster hardware monitor
SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following line in your kernel configuration file:
device acpi_aiboost
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):
acpi_aiboost_load="YES"
DESCRIPTION
The acpi_aiboost driver provides support for monitoring the hardware sensors in recent ASUS motherboards. The driver uses ACPI as the back-
end to fetch sensor values and descriptions and provides its data via the sysctl(8) interface, under dev.acpi_aiboost.0 namespace. Descrip-
tions for these values are available with sysctl -d.
The acpi_aiboost driver typically has 7 sensors, depending on the motherboard and chipset:
Sensor Units Typical Use
CPU uK CPU Temperature
MB uK MB Temperature
VCC uV DC Core Voltage
+3.3V uV DC +3.3 Voltage
+5V uV DC +5 Voltage
+12V uV DC +12 Voltage
CPU RPM CPU Fan
SEE ALSO
acpi(4), sysctl.conf(5) sysctl(8)
HISTORY
The acpi_aiboost driver first appeared in FreeBSD 7.0.
AUTHORS
The acpi_aiboost driver was written by Takanori Watanabe. This manual page was written by Juan Romero Pardines, who adapted the code for
NetBSD, and adopted back to FreeBSD by Takanori Watanabe.
BUGS
It's possible to modify voltages via the ACPI methods in the DSDT, but for now the driver only reports the sensors' values. CPU Q-Fan is
another thing that is typically specified in the ACPI namespace, and in the future we should handle this feature (to enable or disable auto-
matic/manual fan mode).
BSD
March 14, 2007 BSD