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NAME

coretemp – device driver for Intel Core on-die digital thermal sensor

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SYNOPSIS

To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following line in your kernel configuration file: device coretemp

Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5): 

coretemp_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION

The coretemp driver provides support for the on-die digital thermal sensor present in Intel Core and newer CPUs.

The coretemp driver reports each core's temperature through a sysctl node in the corresponding CPU device's sysctl tree, named dev.cpu.%d.temperature.

SEE ALSO

amdtemp(4), sysctl(8)

HISTORY

The coretemp driver first appeared in FreeBSD 7.0 .

AUTHORS

The coretemp driver was written by Rui Paulo <Mt rpaulo@FreeBSD.org> as part of a Google Summer of Code project. This manual page was written by Dag-Erling Sm/orgrav <Mt des@FreeBSD.org>.
CORETEMP (4) August 23, 2007
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