monitoring hardware temperatures

[Mikhail T.]

On 06.12.2010 07:44, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> Well, that code has support only for a few types of hardware monitoring chips
> (Super I/Os with hardware monitoring function).
Damn, I wish I knew earlier... The machine I'm retiring now -- but which 
was my primary horse 3 years ago -- has "Super I/O" :-(
> So, it greatly depends on exact kind of hardware and sensors that you have.
> First thing you should do to is to discover what kind of hardware is used for
> monitoring in your server.
> In your case that data might be provided via IPMI.
Thanks, I'll explore that pointer...
> Especially I am not sure about monitoring DIMM temperature - greatly depends on
> the way that it is actually done.  Perhaps it's reported via SMBus by the DIMMs
> themselves, not sure...
Both NetBSD and OpenBSD (and, likely, DragonFly too) have something 
called sdtemp(4):

    http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/dev/i2c/sdtemp.c?v=NETBSD

I thought, that driver would be part of the unfortunate "basic support 
for a few sensors"...

Anyway, I'll try merging the 
http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/sensors9.diff, and see, what gives...

Is not it just like Linux, that one needs to get patches from here and 
there to get going :-\ ?

    -mi