Hardware monitoring for Intel Atom D945GCLF.

Eugene Butusov ebutusov at gmail.com
Tue Aug 12 20:38:34 UTC 2008


Jeremy Chadwick pisze:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 04:45:47PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>> I don't need an API, but this kind of statement makes Intel sound like
>> they're not willing to disclose the SMBus offsets for monitoring.  I
>> might have to look at lm-sensors from Linux, but that code is very
>> difficult to follow.  I'm not sure if Intel gives this sort of
>> information out publicly, but I sure hope so.
> 
> There's a web page mentioning this board (note: entirely Japanese) --
> 
> http://iktaka.dyndns.org/node/11
> 
> The bottom part of the page states that Linux's lm_sensors 3.0.2 can
> successfully monitor temperatures, voltages, and fan RPMs on that board,
> very likely via SMBus.
> 
> Ideally I should be able to track down technical details by looking at
> that code.  I'd feel much more comfortable asking Intel and having them
> provide necessary registers and offsets, though; I prefer to avoid
> reverse-engineering things if possible (less mistakes).
> 

Thanks for the reply. Looks like there is no tool for FreeBSD which 
supports ICH7 currently. mbmon has support for ICH6, but I'm not sure 
is it still alive. What about your project, are you planing to release 
it to the public in nearest future?

Best regards,
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