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Date:      Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:31:05 -0400
From:      "Constantine A. Murenin" <cnst@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Nate Lawson" <nate@root.org>
Cc:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, src-committers@freebsd.org, "Constantine A. Murenin" <cnst@freebsd.org>, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/coretemp coretemp.c
Message-ID:  <f34ca13c0708241531v2994fe35x442318ec3fe75872@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <46CDA669.8080601@root.org>
References:  <200708231053.l7NAr3Pc088160@repoman.freebsd.org> <86zm0izfhf.fsf@ds4.des.no> <46CDA669.8080601@root.org>

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On 23/08/07, Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> wrote:
> Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> > Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> >>   Log:
> >>   Style nits + more reliable Tj(max) detection + improved reporting of
> >>   critical temperature + sched_unbind() after rdmsr + initialize sc_de=
v.
> >
> > I should note that the driver currently only checks for (and reports) a
> > critical temperature when you read the sysctl; if you want to use devd
> > to react to a critical temperature, you need to set up a cron job to
> > poll dev.cpu.N.temperature.  Hopefully, a future version of the driver
> > will install an interrupt handler and activate the temperature threshol=
d
> > interrupts.
> >
> > DES
>
> You could also create a polling thread that runs every 10 seconds.  We
> have that for acpi_thermal currently.

Actually, this is what coretemp(4) does in my cnst-sensors p4 branch,
using a sensor_task, people are welcome to test it. ;)

C.



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