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Date:      Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:45:56 -0400
From:      Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Phenom II 975 BE shows 0 celsius
Message-ID:  <201108221846.05841.jkim@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <4E50DA45.3010809@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201107312128.29322.lobo@bsd.com.br> <201108011706.14163.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <4E50DA45.3010809@FreeBSD.org>

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On Sunday 21 August 2011 06:13 am, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 02/08/2011 00:06 Jung-uk Kim said the following:
> > On Monday 01 August 2011 04:10 pm, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> >> on 01/08/2011 22:48 Jung-uk Kim said the following:
> >>> I have mixed feeling about this because I own a system with
> >>> such CPU/motherboard combo, too.  I also believe it works well
> >>> but errata is errata.  If vendor says we shouldn't use it, then
> >>> we shouldn't. In fact, I am just following Linux as an example
> >>> here but I have no problem with turning this into a warning
> >>> message, either.
> >>
> >> Let's cut a deal :-)
> >> If we start using amdtemp for fan control, emergency system
> >> shutdown or similar, then we follow the strict path.  Until
> >> then, while we use amdtemp to amuse users with numbers, let's
> >> just print a warning :-)
> >
> > Okay, here is the new patch (not tested on the affected system
> > yet):
> >
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/amdtemp2.diff
>
> Tested the patch - looks good!
> One comment though: it seems that sensor_offset defaults to zero
> now. Would it be a good idea to default it to what it previously
> used to be? On my system the hardware reports the offset correctly
> (as verified by using independent hardware monitoring logic in
> Super I/O), so defaulting it to zero is kind of a regression.

If we want to preserve the previous default, we have to reintroduce 
DiodeOffset or to define more quirks. :-/

Jung-uk Kim



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