[PATCH] hwmon: Add driver for VIA CPU core temperature

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On Fri June 12 2009, Harald Welte wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 06:46:45AM -0500, Michael S. Zick wrote:
> > > Temperature values are supposed to be expressed in millidegrees C, not
> > > degrees C as it seems to be doing (although 25 degrees C seems pretty
> > > low for a CPU temperature?) The drivers needs to multiply values by
> > > 1000 before exporting them to sysfs. Then "sensors" will report the
> > > correct temperature value.
> > > 
> > 
> > Ah, 25 degrees C is room temperature - real hard for the junction temperature
> > to be 25 degrees C with power applied; lacking an infinitely perfect heatsink.
> > 
> > Look for an "off by one" error in shifting or masking the value.
> 
> there is no shifting and the masking is 0xffffffff :)
> 
> it might be that the BIOS is doing something wrong when programming the
> calibration MSR's at early botoup.  I would need the contents of MSR 
> 0x1160 ... 0x116C as well as 0x1152 and 0x1153 to be able to determine that.
> 

root at cb01:~# for r in 0x1160 0x1161 0x1162 0x1163 0x1164 0x1165 0x1166 0x1167 0x1168 0x1169 0x116a 0x116b 0x116c 0x1152 0x1153 ; do ./rdmsr $r ; done
MSR register 0x1160 => 08:04:98:10:b7:ef:8f:f4
MSR register 0x1161 => 08:04:98:10:b7:fb:af:f4
MSR register 0x1162 => 08:04:98:10:b7:ec:ff:f4
MSR register 0x1163 => 08:04:98:10:b7:fa:cf:f4
MSR register 0x1164 => 08:04:98:10:b7:f4:cf:f4
MSR register 0x1165 => 08:04:98:10:b7:f3:2f:f4
MSR register 0x1166 => 08:04:98:10:b7:f1:7f:f4
MSR register 0x1167 => 08:04:98:10:b7:f2:0f:f4
MSR register 0x1168 => 08:04:98:10:b7:ef:0f:f4
MSR register 0x1169 => 08:04:98:10:b7:fc:8f:f4
MSR register 0x116a => 08:04:98:10:b7:ef:8f:f4
MSR register 0x116b => 08:04:98:10:b7:f8:bf:f4
MSR register 0x116c => 08:04:98:10:b7:f9:df:f4
MSR register 0x1152 => 08:04:98:10:b7:ed:5f:f4
MSR register 0x1153 => 08:04:98:10:b7:ed:cf:f4

The high 32b look strange in that output - might be
the utility I used (attached).

Mike

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