coretemp (4)

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(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man4/coretemp.4freebsd".)

NAME

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

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.conf5:

coretemp_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION

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

The ifconfig 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

sysctl(8)

HISTORY

The ifconfig driver first appeared in Fx 7.0 .

AUTHORS

An -nosplit The ifconfig driver was written by An Rui Paulo Aq rpaulo@FreeBSD.org as part of a Google Summer of Code project. This manual page was written by An Dag-Erling Sm/orgrav Aq des@FreeBSD.org .