From: Boleslaw Ciesielski <bolek-sensors@curl.com>
To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] Backporting coretemp and w83793 to 2.6.18
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:38:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46CBA1AC.5070400@curl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46CB9161.5090408@curl.com>
Boleslaw Ciesielski wrote:
> I have this new server based on the Asus DSBF-DE/SAS motherboard and a
> pair of Xeons 5355. I want to run CentOS 5.0 (RHEL 5 clone) on it.
> CentOS 5.0 is based on the 2.6.18 kernel and as such has drivers for
> everything *except* for the sensors. The motherboard uses 83793 chip.
>
> So, I wanted to backport the w83793 and coretemp drivers to 2.6.18
> kernel. I took the source from 2.6.22.3 for these two and tried to
> compile them for 2.6.18.
>
> The w83793 compiles and loads as is, without any changes.
>
> coretemp required some changes related to msr so I just restored the
> code that was in there when coretemp was floating around as a patch
> before it made it to the kernel. See the attached patch for detail.
>
> Anyway, with those changes both coretemp and w83793 compile and load. I
> also copied sensors.conf from 2.10.4 and ran "sensors -s". However,
> neither is providing any data. Output looks like this:
Just a quick update. I got reply off-list that I am missing the new
versions of the user tools. I installed 2.10.4 rpm from Fedora 7 and I
get the readings now.
Thank you
Bolek
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-22 2:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-22 1:29 [lm-sensors] Backporting coretemp and w83793 to 2.6.18 Boleslaw Ciesielski
2007-08-22 2:38 ` Boleslaw Ciesielski [this message]
2008-05-05 17:05 ` Darth Tumi
2008-05-05 17:16 ` Darth Tumi
2008-05-12 12:37 ` Jean Delvare
2008-05-12 13:22 ` Darth Tumi
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