[lm-sensors] AMD K8 digital temperature sensor
david.c.hubbard at gmail.com
Fri Jul 7 17:59:45 CEST 2006
> After new specs was released. I discovered that even older AMD K8 have digital
> temperature sensor.
> (page 177)
> I created a device driver for that
> You need to have AMD K8, up to four different temps can be monitored
> two in one core...
> The driver will create new hwmon device. No userspace support yet.
> If someone with dual core would test it - I'm interested in results.
> cat /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon1/device/temp*
> ls /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon1/device/temp*
> cat /proc/cpuinfo
I'll attempt to apply this to my kernel tonight. I have an Athlon 64
X2, so I can give you dual-core results. The temperatures reported by
the W83627EHF have puzzled me, because I thought I was getting two
readings from the CPU. Why is that?
> (replace 1 with correct number please)
> "Many thanks" goes to Jean, helping me a lot hunting nasty bugs ;)
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