From: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
To: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Auto load of coretemp and pkgtemp
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:45:28 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D3F6EA8.4030503@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D3DBCC9.7000804@cfl.rr.com>
On 01/24/2011 11:54 AM, Phillip Susi wrote:
> I recently built a new sandybridge system and was surprised to find that
> I had to manually load the coretemp and pkgtemp modules to monitor the
> cpu temperature. My last few systems have been AMD where the k8temp
> module is automatically loaded. It seems k8temp has a modalias that
> gets it loaded on the correct hardware, but coretemp and pkgtemp have no
> alias. Why is this, and how can I construct a proper alias to get the
> intel modules to auto load?
I think the difference is that on AMD the temperature monitoring is done
through a virtual PCI device that we can make a modalias for, but
coretemp support is based on CPUID and I don't think there's a way to
construct a modalias for that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-26 0:45 UTC|newest]
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2011-01-24 17:54 Auto load of coretemp and pkgtemp Phillip Susi
2011-01-26 0:45 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2011-01-26 0:51 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
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