From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jean Delvare Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:44:12 +0000 Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] Intel Core voltage monitoring Message-Id: <20071210154412.7cc4e04f@hyperion.delvare> List-Id: References: <475BDA45.70400@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <475BDA45.70400@googlemail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org Hi Rudolf, On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:43:13 +0100, Rudolf Marek wrote: > Hi Peter, > > IMHO the CPU-Z reads the VID code from CPU, so the voltage is not the real > voltage, but the voltage that the CPU wants (not what it is actually getting). > > The driver could be extended to show the voltage, but that would not be a real > voltage, but just voltage it wants... Don't know if it is benefit for user? > > What others think? Well, that's what other hardware monitoring drivers export as cpu0_vid. If you can read the value from the CPU directly, that would be interesting, as this means that we can get the value even if the VID lines aren't (properly) wired to the hardware monitoring chip. So, yes, I'd say it's worth exporting from the coretemp driver if that can be done easily and reliably. Thanks, -- Jean Delvare _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors