Re: [PATCH] hwmon: (coretemp) Relax target temperature range check

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On Tue, 31 May 2011 13:29:18 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 15:50 -0400, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > The current temperature range check of MSR_IA32_TEMPERATURE_TARGET
> > seems too strict to me, some TjMax values documented in
> > Documentation/hwmon/coretemp wouldn't pass. Relax the check so that
> > all the documented values pass.
> > 
> Maybe the reason is that the processors which support reading TjMax via
> the register are all in the 80 .. 120 range. Who knows - unfortunately,
> a simple table describing which processor supports which set of
> registers does not seem to exist, or at least I was unable to find it.
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Carsten Emde <C.Emde@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> > ---
> > I'm not even sure why we need to check the range. Why would the
> > value read from the MSR be wrong?
> 
> If I understand correctly, some processors support the register but not
> the TjMax value in bits 16..23. Here is an exchange about it:
> 
> http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/230079-29-intel-tjunction-mean

OK but then the value in these bits would be 0, not a random value,
right? Wouldn't checking for val != 0 be more appropriate than the
heuristic we have?

-- 
Jean Delvare

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