Re: [PATCH] coretemp: add support for Core i5 CPU

[Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>]

On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:19:54 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
> Add coretemp support for Core i5 (Lynnfield) CPUs with model 0x1E.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
> 
> ---
> 
> This minimal patch works to add support for these CPUs, though we should likely
> still look into using the CPUID flags instead of the model check.
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c b/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c
> index 93c1722..a9a21dc 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c
> @@ -413,11 +413,11 @@ static int __init coretemp_init(void)
>  	for_each_online_cpu(i) {
>  		struct cpuinfo_x86 *c = &cpu_data(i);
>  
> -		/* check if family 6, models 0xe, 0xf, 0x16, 0x17, 0x1A */
> +		/* check if family 6, models 0xe, 0xf, 0x16, 0x17, 0x1A, 0x1E */
>  		if ((c->cpuid_level < 0) || (c->x86 != 0x6) ||
>  		    !((c->x86_model == 0xe) || (c->x86_model == 0xf) ||
>  			(c->x86_model == 0x16) || (c->x86_model == 0x17) ||
> -			(c->x86_model == 0x1A))) {
> +			(c->x86_model == 0x1A) || (c->x86_model == 0x1E))) {
>  
>  			/* supported CPU not found, but report the unknown
>  			   family 6 CPU */

We've received a similar patch from Intel themselves a few days ago,
and I've just pushed it upstream.

-- 
Jean Delvare