Phenom II 975 BE shows 0 celsius

[Jung-uk Kim]

On Sunday 21 August 2011 06:13 am, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 02/08/2011 00:06 Jung-uk Kim said the following:
> > On Monday 01 August 2011 04:10 pm, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> >> on 01/08/2011 22:48 Jung-uk Kim said the following:
> >>> I have mixed feeling about this because I own a system with
> >>> such CPU/motherboard combo, too.  I also believe it works well
> >>> but errata is errata.  If vendor says we shouldn't use it, then
> >>> we shouldn't. In fact, I am just following Linux as an example
> >>> here but I have no problem with turning this into a warning
> >>> message, either.
> >>
> >> Let's cut a deal :-)
> >> If we start using amdtemp for fan control, emergency system
> >> shutdown or similar, then we follow the strict path.  Until
> >> then, while we use amdtemp to amuse users with numbers, let's
> >> just print a warning :-)
> >
> > Okay, here is the new patch (not tested on the affected system
> > yet):
> >
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/amdtemp2.diff
>
> Tested the patch - looks good!
> One comment though: it seems that sensor_offset defaults to zero
> now. Would it be a good idea to default it to what it previously
> used to be? On my system the hardware reports the offset correctly
> (as verified by using independent hardware monitoring logic in
> Super I/O), so defaulting it to zero is kind of a regression.

If we want to preserve the previous default, we have to reintroduce 
DiodeOffset or to define more quirks. :-/

Jung-uk Kim