CFT: k8temp driver

Rui Paulo rpaulo at FreeBSD.org
Sat Apr 12 20:57:18 UTC 2008


On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Rui Paulo <rpaulo at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 03:59:04PM +0000, Rui Paulo wrote:
>
>
> > Hi,
>  > Some AMD systems have two thermal sensors on both cores. I wrote a simple
>  > driver to access these temperatures, but I don't have a system to test. If
>  > anyone has a AMD K8 system, I would love if you could test the k8temp
>  > driver that I wrote based on the Linux one.
>  >
>  > Get it at:
>  >       http://people.freebsd.org/~rpaulo/k8temp.tgz
>  >
>  > Compile/test with:
>  >       $ tar xzvf k8temp.tgz && cd k8temp
>  >       $ make SYSDIR=/path/to/src/sys
>  >       # kldload ./k8temp.ko
>  >
>  > This is still pre-alpha quality, so please don't use it on a production
>  > system.
>
>  Please try the new version at the same URL:
>
>        http://people.freebsd.org/~rpaulo/k8temp.tgz
>
>  It should be more kind to those systems that can't clear the config
>  register, and it should also create a sysctl node under
>  dev.cpu.N.temperature with the maximum temperature between sensor 0
>  and sensor 1 of each core.
>
>  Thanks,
>  --
>  Rui Paulo
>

Thanks for all your testing. The driver is now in HEAD. I will MFC it
in a month.

Regards,
-- 
Rui Paulo


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