Hi Henrique, hi Leon, On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:13:05 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, leon moss wrote: > > I was just wondering if the lm-sensors will still > > break the latest IBM thinkpads I am thinking about > > getting a T61. I remember all of the other issues that > > have been reported from other thinkpad users at > > earlier models but I just wanted to see if you may > > have known about the new T61's. > > Don't run sensors-detect on thinkpads, all you will find *IF* you are very > lucky, is the clock generator (*never* mess with it) and the SPD eeproms in > the RAM modules (dmidecode will tell you all about your RAM in a thinkpad, > anyway). I don't even see these on my T60p's SMBus. > All of a recent thinkpad's sensors are not reachable by the main CPU. Use > the ibm-acpi/thinkpad-acpi and tp_smapi drivers to talk to them. And if you > did not do it yet, go to http://thinkwiki.org to learn about your thinkpad > and its drivers. There is not much on the T61 in there yet, so feel free to > help improve it. > > Thinkpad-acpi will export the sensors through the hwmon layer in 2.6.23, > btw. I'd imagine lm-sensors userspace will be able to talk to it, then. For the stable branch of lm-sensors, explicit support will be needed. If you plan to merge support in the 2.6.23 kernel, it would probably be a good thing to merge the user-space support now, so that it makes it into the next release (2.10.4) and is available when kernel 2.6.23-rc1 is released. > Just don't do sensors-detect on a thinkpad. It is useless, although AFAIK it > won't touch the broken vital-product-data eeprom that bricked thinkpads > anymore. For what it's worth, sensors-detect didn't break my Thinkpad T60p. A recent version even found the CPU-embedded sensors (Intel Core Duo T2600) which are supported by Rudolf Marek's coretemp driver. -- Jean Delvare
