From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adam Nielsen Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:28:38 +0000 Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3P - VID Zero value Message-Id: <4ADF0C86.4070307@shikadi.net> List-Id: References: <20091019164516.701032uxlen5ai2k@mail.simonandkate.net> In-Reply-To: <20091019164516.701032uxlen5ai2k@mail.simonandkate.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org > Now you are right that the limitation of the it87 driver to only read > VID at initialization time (for some of the supported chips at least, > amongst which the IT8718F) makes the VID value useless on systems with > CPU changing VID over time, as is your case. Even if we managed to get > a valid VID reading from your IT8718F chip (assuming this is possible > at all) it wouldn't be that interesting, unless we also address the > driver limitation about reading VID in real-time. Which is very complex > (which is why it didn't happen yet.) Are you suggesting resetting the chip occasionally to read in the VID again? Because that's an interesting idea...but yes, it would be complicated :-) Cheers, Adam. _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors