Re: port-i386/18205

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-i386/18205; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-i386/18205
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:00:07 -0800 (PST)

 This is most likely fixed with the recent addition (by me) of sensor-type 
 selection.
 
 ---------- Forwarded message ----------
 Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:15:38 -0600 (CST)
 From: MLH <mlh%goathill.org@localhost>
 To: paul%whooppee.com@localhost
 Subject: Re: PR kern/18205
 
 > 
 > Would it be OK then if we close the PR?
 
 Sure.
 
 > On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, MLH wrote:
 > 
 >>> 
 >>> This is an old PR, but I think we've recently addressed it!
 >>> 
 >>> Many of the Winbond chips can actually use different sensor types for
 >>> the temp sensors.  You can now select between Pentium-II diode,
 >>> thermistor, or 2N3904 BiPolar sensors using the config flags.  The lm(4)
 >>> man page was updated to indicate the appropriate values.
 >>> 
 >>> Can you check and see if this fixes your temperature problem?
 >> 
 >> That was for a compute farm with about 500 cpus that had the problem
 >> (of several thousand) that I suspect have been replaced.  I haven't
 >> had access to them for several years.  Sorry.
 >> 
 >> 
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