8-STABLE: support for this SMB controller?

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 07:19:24AM +0100, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
> Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> 
> > If all you're looking for is CPU temperature, try looking at ACPI
> > thermal zones.  Some BIOSes/mainboard manufacturers implement this on
> > workstations.  Otherwise, if you have a Intel Core, C2D, or C2Q CPU,
> > load the coretemp(4) driver.
> 
> i7-920 in my case... and seems to work ;)
> 
> olivleh1 at kartoffel olivleh1> sysctl dev.cpu | grep temp
> dev.cpu.0.temperature: 52.0C
> dev.cpu.1.temperature: 53.0C
> dev.cpu.2.temperature: 48.0C
> dev.cpu.3.temperature: 48.0C
> dev.cpu.4.temperature: 53.0C
> dev.cpu.5.temperature: 53.0C
> dev.cpu.6.temperature: 49.0C
> dev.cpu.7.temperature: 49.0C
> 
> I should probably disable HyperThreading...

I thought HyperThreading defaulted to being disabled in FreeBSD as a
result of security concerns?  Hmm...

> > Re: HW monitoring: bsdhwmon can talk to smb(4) (thus ichsmb), but is
> > only intended for server boards (at the time of this writing only
> > supporting Supermicro).
> 
> And it looks like it has been canceled :(
> "The bsdhwmon project has been cancelled, and is no longer maintained."
> on their webpage..

I'm the author.  :-)  The project was cancelled due to certain
irreconcilable differences (can't/won't really get into it), but as of
late I've been working on the software again.  I haven't made the time
to put the site back up.  I also lost all of the documentation
Supermicro had sent me in a ZFS-related mishap, so I need to get in
contact with them again.

Is the board you're using a i7-920 in a server-class board?  If so, let
me know the manufacturer, exact model/revision number, and the output
from "kenv | grep smbios" and I'll see if I can wrangle details out of
them.

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