Re: AMD Ryzen temp sensor

[Ian Clark <mrrooster%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 24 January 2018 at 21:29, Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost> wrote:
> Hi, Ian!
>
Hi Paul,

> Thanks for the driver.  I took a preliminary look at the code, and it looks
> reasonable.
>
That's good to know, it's been a fun intro to this kind of stuff. :)

> I'd probably re-word the HISTORY sections of the man pages a bit (for
> consistency with other code), but otherwise I see no reason not to import
> this for -current (or HEAD).  I'm not so sure about whether we should
> pull-up a new driver to -8 at this late stage, but I can ask, once we get a
> little bit of stable time on -current.
>
I've added a HISTORY section to the amdsmn manpage, the other is a
verbatim copy of the amdtemp HISTORY section and I was unsure how best
to improve it, so haven't made any changes I'm afraid.

Cheers,

Ian

>
>
>
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2018, Ian Clark wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Due to what can only be described as incompetence on my part I'm
>> currently running an AMD Ryzen with inadequate cooling. Due to this
>> it'd be really useful to be able to get the CPU temp so I know when
>> I'm going to need new hardware. ;)
>>
>> To that end I've ported the driver recently added to FreeBSD, and
>> thought I'd share it here if it's any use to anyone. Configure with:
>>
>> amdsmn* at pci?
>> amdzentemp* at amdsmn?
>>
>> src changes for 8_BETA are here:
>>
>> http://tsunami.ohmyno.co.uk/~ian/ryzen_temp_changes.tbz
>>
>> As I've never done anything like this before I've absolutely no idea
>> how to submit it, but am happy to do so if someone points me in the
>> right direction? I did have a gander round the site but probably
>> missed the correct page. Do I need to submit a feature request pr?
>>
>> The driver is a port of the amd sys management network driver from
>> freebsd, and the changes to amdtemp. I've split these into a new
>> device to avoid a hard dependency on amdsmn within amdtemp.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Ian
>>
>> !DSPAM:5a68de93214055407574582!
>>
>>
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