Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 9 Jun 2001 10:17:43 +0100 (BST) | From | James Sutherland <> | Subject | Re: temperature standard - global config option? |
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On 9 Jun 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Followup to: <200106090352.f593q7M491225@saturn.cs.uml.edu> > By author: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > > > But in spite of all this, you're not really measure the critical > > > temperature, which is junction tempature. Yes, case tempature has *some* > > > > There are processors with temperature measurement built right > > into the silicon. > > As far as I know, ALL current microprocessors do.
The current x86 setup uses a small sensor sitting under the CPU socket. Intel's more recent output does have a heat sensor of its own, for thermal protection purposes - presumably this is exported to the chipset - but older ones don't appear to...
James.
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