K8temp & K10temp

[R Kimber]

On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:02:01 +0100
Joep L. Blom wrote:

> Can anybody give information on the status of the temperature modules 
> for the current kernel.
> I'm running Karmic on an AMD Phenom II and there is a module K10temp 
> that has worked in kernel 2.6.28-15. As this was in August I thought it 
> would already be incorporated in the newer kernels. But the current 
> kernel 2-6-31-14 has the same K8temp module as in all other kernels. On 
> the lmsensors list they have already a K8temp version that is adapted 
> for the newer processor types. I would like to know when this will be 
> implemented in the new Ubuntu kernels. Other wise I have to compile the 
> module for each new kernel.

Actually, the latest release of the stable branch version of sensors-detect
from the lm-sensors website detects K10 but says 'driver `to-be-written',
so presumably even lm-sensors hasn't quite got its act together yet. So it
presumably won't appear in Ubuntu just yet.

- Richard.
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