learned something about coretemp

[Julian Elischer]

Rui Paulo wrote:
> 
> On 29 Oct 2007, at 03:22, Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
>> Rui Paulo wrote:
>>> On 10/28/07, Julian Elischer <julian at elischer.org> wrote:
>>>> never kldload it on an 8 year old system.
>>>>
>>>> *bewm*
>>>>
>>>> I presume that my 8 YO inspiron 7500 doesn't have whatever is needed,
>>>> but, "*Bewm*" is probably a less than optimal reaction.
>>> That has been reported in the past. It's Intel's fault, not ours.
>>> The spec says that if you issue a CPUID you should be able to tell if
>>> the CPU has the temperature sensors regardless of the CPU model, but
>>> on old systems these CPUID call "returns true".
>>
>> maybe we should just return true to


part of the mail seems missing..

I think it went on something like:

...the startup routines for this module only of the cpu seems new enough.

> 
> I'm sorry, but what do you mean?
> 
> -- 
> Rui Paulo