Feature request: AMD K10 thermal sensors

Christoph Höger choeger at cs.tu-berlin.de
Sat Oct 31 11:51:43 UTC 2009


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.
> 
> Michal


Just one question: How are the lm_sensors names (10h, 11h) related to
current processors? 11h seems to be WIP.
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