Messages in this thread | | | From | Dmitry Gromov <> | Date | Tue, 18 May 2010 08:03:29 -0400 | Subject | Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH 0/2] hwmon: Update coretemp to current Intel processors |
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Hi!
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 03:01, Carsten Emde <C.Emde@osadl.org> wrote: > Dmitry, > >>> Here comes the current version of the coretemp patches. Huaxu did the >>> initial work; Jean suggested to submit them directly to Andrew. >>> >>> I made some style changes as advised by checkpatch. >>> >>> The patches have been tested successfully on Core 2 Duo and Quad, and on >>> Nehalem and Nehalem/Westmere where temperature readings were plausible >>> and >>> changed with load as expected. When tested on an Atom processor (N270), >>> the >>> temperature values were identical to previous versions of the coretemp >>> module and also changed with load. However, the readings should be higher >>> by 10 to 15C as compared to the outside temperature of the processor. >>> Huaxu, could you check? I would guess TjMax to be 105 instead of 90C in >>> these >>> processors. >> >> I apologize, if I ask a stupid question, but are you saying that TjMax in >> coretemp.c should be set to higher value than Tcase-max value specified in >> Intel documents? > > Hmm, no. I am saying that I would like the reading to be correct. I have > measured the outside temperature of the case with an infrared thermometer > [1] and found it to be higher than the readings returned by the coretemp > module. In all other CPUs I have, the coretemp readings are higher than the > case temperature. >
Thank you very much for an explanation, Carsten.
-- DG NJ
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