Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/dev/pci
To: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
From: Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org>
List: source-changes
Date: 07/11/2007 15:56:10
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:03:14 +1000
Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 11:52:46PM +0200, Juan RP wrote:
> > I've implemented this part:
> > 
> > http://www.netbsd.org/~xtraeme/wpi_sensor.diff
> > 
> > Let me know how it works.
> 
> There's a sensor there, and it seems to change with use, but I'm not
> sure the units or scale is sensible yet:
> 
> Shortly after boot, and with comparison to the other temperature
> available:
> 
>  acpitz0 temperature:     38.500 degC
>  wpi0 temperature:         88
> 
> After a few moments:
> 
>  acpitz0 temperature:     35.500 degC
>  wpi0 temperature:        112
> 
> Then a few more:
> 
>  acpitz0 temperature:     34.500 degC
>  wpi0 temperature:        121
> 
> (note the tz0 temp going down..)

This is what the OpenBSD code does... I don't know more details,
in theory it should be a temperature sensor but I'm not sure if it's
reported as Farenheit or something else.

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