1 Kernel driver k8temp 2 ==================== 3 4 Supported chips: 5 6 * AMD Athlon64/FX or Opteron CPUs 7 8 Prefix: 'k8temp' 9 10 Addresses scanned: PCI space 11 12 Datasheet: https://www.amd.com/system/files/TechDocs/32559.pdf 13 14 Author: Rudolf Marek 15 16 Contact: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@assembler.cz> 17 18 Description 19 ----------- 20 21 This driver permits reading temperature sensor(s) embedded inside AMD K8 22 family CPUs (Athlon64/FX, Opteron). Official documentation says that it works 23 from revision F of K8 core, but in fact it seems to be implemented for all 24 revisions of K8 except the first two revisions (SH-B0 and SH-B3). 25 26 Please note that you will need at least lm-sensors 2.10.1 for proper userspace 27 support. 28 29 There can be up to four temperature sensors inside single CPU. The driver 30 will auto-detect the sensors and will display only temperatures from 31 implemented sensors. 32 33 Mapping of /sys files is as follows: 34 35 ============= =================================== 36 temp1_input temperature of Core 0 and "place" 0 37 temp2_input temperature of Core 0 and "place" 1 38 temp3_input temperature of Core 1 and "place" 0 39 temp4_input temperature of Core 1 and "place" 1 40 ============= =================================== 41 42 Temperatures are measured in degrees Celsius and measurement resolution is 43 1 degree C. It is expected that future CPU will have better resolution. The 44 temperature is updated once a second. Valid temperatures are from -49 to 45 206 degrees C. 46 47 Temperature known as TCaseMax was specified for processors up to revision E. 48 This temperature is defined as temperature between heat-spreader and CPU 49 case, so the internal CPU temperature supplied by this driver can be higher. 50 There is no easy way how to measure the temperature which will correlate 51 with TCaseMax temperature. 52 53 For newer revisions of CPU (rev F, socket AM2) there is a mathematically 54 computed temperature called TControl, which must be lower than TControlMax. 55 56 The relationship is following: 57 58 temp1_input - TjOffset*2 < TControlMax, 59 60 TjOffset is not yet exported by the driver, TControlMax is usually 61 70 degrees C. The rule of the thumb -> CPU temperature should not cross 62 60 degrees C too much.
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