Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:24:17 -0800 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: Don Lewis <truckman@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, torfinn.ingolfsen@getmail.no Subject: Re: RELENG_8: amdtemp module and newer CPUs not working. MFC? Message-ID: <CAN6yY1svC7pzy2noa0aahUyUp85dQYMWBVG_9wCYJf5BJWENuA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201302210629.r1L6T5VU001000@gw.catspoiler.org> References: <20130217135317.5c4d10819e8d12440785a3a0@getmail.no> <201302210629.r1L6T5VU001000@gw.catspoiler.org>
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On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:29 PM, Don Lewis <truckman@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 17 Feb, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: >> Hello, >> I'm running FreeBSD 8.3-stable on a machine with an AMD A8-5600K cpu. >> tingo@kg-quiet$ uname -a >> FreeBSD kg-quiet.kg4.no 8.3-STABLE FreeBSD 8.3-STABLE #2: Fri Jan 4 19:18:15 CET 2013 >> root@kg-quiet.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 >> tingo@kg-quiet$ dmesg | grep CPU | head -1 >> CPU: AMD A8-5600K APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics (3618.02-MHz K8-class CPU) >> >> Unfortunately, the amdtemp.ko module doesn't work: >> tingo@kg-quiet$ kldstat | grep temp >> 10 1 0xffffffff8123e000 f0f amdtemp.ko >> tingo@kg-quiet$ sysctl dev.amdtemp >> sysctl: unknown oid 'dev.amdtemp' >> >> Based on a thread[1] on the forums, amdtemp.c from -CURRENT work. >> But it doesn't compile under FreeBSD 8.3-stable: > > Updating amdtemp is on my TODO list. It has some issues even on > -CURRENT. This is kind of far down my priority list because on most of > my AMD machines, I can also get the temperature without amdtemp: > > % sysctl hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature > hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature: 30.0C Beware! My desktop system (SuperMICRO) reports a permanent, unchanging value for acpi_thermal. 45C IIRC. amdtemp on that system returns the correct temp for all four cores. Is your always 30C? That is pretty cool! (Pun intended.) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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