On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 06:27 -0700, Philip Pokorny wrote: > The Intel EPSD systems with IPMI are now reporting 'margins' instead > of 'temperatres' for many sensors. > > A margin is measured in degrees and is a negative number. As the CPU > or other device gets hotter the value increases towards zero. If it > goes positive, then you have 'overheated' and exceeded the spec. > > I would agree that you should expose thw value from the sensor but > would suggest we label these as 'margins' and not 'temperatures' Actually, I think that there even is no need to know the tjmax. Why would user care how hot cpu is? I would just know that it is below its maximum designed temperature, and how much, thus raw value would work just fine. Regards, Maxim Levitsky
