Status/support for Linux HECI from Intel? (for temp/voltage monitoring)

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On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Gabriel C wrote:

> Maxim Levitsky wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 11:42 -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>>> On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Dan Williams wrote:
>>>
>>>> Justin Piszcz wrote:
>>>>> The HECI interface would allow lm_sensors developers to grab the
>>>>> temperatures off the chips on the board.
>>>>>
>>>>> From 2005(?)-2008 there was some chatter about supporting it but it never
>>>>> seemed to happen, is there any eventual planned support for supporting
>>>>> Intel's HECI interface or if the user wants to see the
>>>>> temperatures/voltages just buy a different motherboard with an ITE I/O
>>>>> controller?
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a couple DG965WH boards and it would be nice to see the
>>>>> temperature of the chipset etc without having to reboot into the BIOS.
>>>>>
>>>> Hi Justin,
>>>>
>>>> I am not up to date on the progress in this area, but perhaps this site
>>>> (http://www.openamt.org/) has what you are looking for?
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Dan
>>>>
>>> Yeah that is the site-- however, will it ever get merged?  I have not
>>> heard anything about it for a year or so.
>>
>> Nope, the heci is just a controller, but we need a way to tell that
>> controller to show us the temperature data.
>> But intel hasn't released the QST sdk, and probably never will.
>>
>> Sad,
>
>
> Well I found this interesting thread about :
>
> http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/manageability-software-development/topic/54851/
>
> It looks like the QST SDK already exists and is planned to be released..
> (  http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/manageability-software-development/topic/54851/reply/74068/ )
>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> 	Maxim Levitsky
>>
>
> Gabriel

I volunteer to test any patches if/when they are created after the SDK is 
released.

Justin.



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