Re: Feature request: AMD K10 thermal sensors

[Conrad Meyer <cemeyer u washington edu>]

On Thursday 29 October 2009 07:08:44 am Christoph Höger wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 29.10.2009, 14:51 +0100 schrieb Michal Schmidt:
> > Dne 29.10.2009 12:38, Christoph Höger napsal(a):
> > > since a year or so the AMD K10 thermal sensors module (k10temp) seems
> > > to be floating around  the web. I would appreciate some kernel packager
> > > integrating it into the fedora 11 stock kernel - since without it I can
> > > not build (and trust!) a silent cooling system.
> > >
> > > Any plans on this issue?
> >
> > AMD K10 sensors support has been repeatedly refused by upstream
> > lm_sensors developers because of the sensors' unreliability.
> >
> > e.g. Rudolf Marek said in LKML on 2009-08-28:
> > > There is a problem that all chips of fam10h have some errata which
> > > renders the monitoring driver unusable. Some people proposed a
> > > workaround if temps look too suspicious to refuse to load. This is
> > > against a sense of monitoring to refuse the values where they don't
> > > look "right". So there is no driver.
> 
> So this means there is no chance to get my thermal sensors working under
> fedora?

Perhaps see if RPMFusion will carry the kmod.

Regards,
-- 
Conrad Meyer <cemeyer u washington edu>