This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
Subject: [PATCH 5/6] k8temp: Documentation update
to my gregkh-2.6 tree. Its filename is
hwmon-k8temp-documentation-update.patch
This tree can be found at
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/patches/
>From khali at linux-fr.org Sun Oct 8 13:01:38 2006
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 22:01:26 +0200
From: Rudolf Marek <r.marek at assembler.cz>
To: Greg KH <greg at kroah.com>
Cc: LM Sensors <lm-sensors at lm-sensors.org>, Rudolf Marek <r.marek at assembler.cz>
Subject: [PATCH 5/6] k8temp: Documentation update
Message-Id: <20061008220126.3bfe9476.khali at linux-fr.org>
Content-Disposition: inline; filename=hwmon-k8temp-documentation-update.patch
From: Rudolf Marek <r.marek at assembler.cz>
Update the documentation for the k8temp driver.
Signed-off-by: Rudolf Marek <r.marek at assembler.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali at linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at suse.de>
---
Documentation/hwmon/k8temp | 13 ++++++++-----
MAINTAINERS | 6 ++++++
drivers/hwmon/Kconfig | 6 ++++--
3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
--- gregkh-2.6.orig/Documentation/hwmon/k8temp
+++ gregkh-2.6/Documentation/hwmon/k8temp
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Kernel driver k8temp
====================
Supported chips:
- * AMD K8 CPU
+ * AMD Athlon64/FX or Opteron CPUs
Prefix: 'k8temp'
Addresses scanned: PCI space
Datasheet: http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/32559.pdf
@@ -13,10 +13,13 @@ Contact: Rudolf Marek <r.marek at sh.cvut.c
Description
-----------
-This driver permits reading temperature sensor(s) embedded inside AMD K8 CPUs.
-Official documentation says that it works from revision F of K8 core, but
-in fact it seems to be implemented for all revisions of K8 except the first
-two revisions (SH-B0 and SH-B3).
+This driver permits reading temperature sensor(s) embedded inside AMD K8
+family CPUs (Athlon64/FX, Opteron). Official documentation says that it works
+from revision F of K8 core, but in fact it seems to be implemented for all
+revisions of K8 except the first two revisions (SH-B0 and SH-B3).
+
+Please note that you will need at least lm-sensors 2.10.1 for proper userspace
+support.
There can be up to four temperature sensors inside single CPU. The driver
will auto-detect the sensors and will display only temperatures from
--- gregkh-2.6.orig/MAINTAINERS
+++ gregkh-2.6/MAINTAINERS
@@ -1666,6 +1666,12 @@ M: sct at redhat.com, akpm at osdl.org
L: ext2-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
S: Maintained
+K8TEMP HARDWARE MONITORING DRIVER
+P: Rudolf Marek
+M: r.marek at assembler.cz
+L: lm-sensors at lm-sensors.org
+S: Maintained
+
KCONFIG
P: Roman Zippel
M: zippel at linux-m68k.org
--- gregkh-2.6.orig/drivers/hwmon/Kconfig
+++ gregkh-2.6/drivers/hwmon/Kconfig
@@ -95,11 +95,13 @@ config SENSORS_ADM9240
will be called adm9240.
config SENSORS_K8TEMP
- tristate "AMD K8 processor sensor"
+ tristate "AMD Athlon64/FX or Opteron temperature sensor"
depends on HWMON && X86 && PCI && EXPERIMENTAL
help
If you say yes here you get support for the temperature
- sensor(s) inside your AMD K8 CPU.
+ sensor(s) inside your CPU. Supported is whole AMD K8
+ microarchitecture. Please note that you will need at least
+ lm-sensors 2.10.1 for proper userspace support.
This driver can also be built as a module. If so, the module
will be called k8temp.
Patches currently in gregkh-2.6 which might be from r.marek at assembler.cz are
i2c/hwmon-k8temp-documentation-update.patch
i2c/hwmon-w83627ehf-fix-fan5-detection.patch
