learned something about coretemp

Rui Paulo rpaulo at FreeBSD.org
Sun Oct 28 07:36:06 PDT 2007


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".

-- 
Rui Paulo


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