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Subject: Re: learned something about coretemp
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On 29 Oct 2007, at 03:22, Julian Elischer wrote:

> Rui Paulo wrote:
>> On 10/28/07, Julian Elischer <julian@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".
>
> maybe we should just return true to

I'm sorry, but what do you mean?

--
Rui Paulo