Re: [lm-sensors] Status/support for Linux HECI from Intel? (for temp/voltage monitoring)

[Gabriel C]

2009/2/12 Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>
> On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Gabriel C wrote:
>
>> Maxim Levitsky wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 11:42 -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Dan Williams wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Justin Piszcz wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The HECI interface would allow lm_sensors developers to grab the
>>>>>> temperatures off the chips on the board.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> From 2005(?)-2008 there was some chatter about supporting it but it
>>>>>> never
>>>>>> seemed to happen, is there any eventual planned support for supporting
>>>>>> Intel's HECI interface or if the user wants to see the
>>>>>> temperatures/voltages just buy a different motherboard with an ITE I/O
>>>>>> controller?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have a couple DG965WH boards and it would be nice to see the
>>>>>> temperature of the chipset etc without having to reboot into the BIOS.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Justin,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am not up to date on the progress in this area, but perhaps this site
>>>>> (http://www.openamt.org/) has what you are looking for?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Dan
>>>>>
>>>> Yeah that is the site-- however, will it ever get merged?  I have not
>>>> heard anything about it for a year or so.
>>>
>>> Nope, the heci is just a controller, but we need a way to tell that
>>> controller to show us the temperature data.
>>> But intel hasn't released the QST sdk, and probably never will.
>>>
>>> Sad,
>>
>>
>> Well I found this interesting thread about :
>>
>>
>> http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/manageability-software-development/topic/54851/
>>
>> It looks like the QST SDK already exists and is planned to be released..
>> (
>>  http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/manageability-software-development/topic/54851/reply/74068/
>> )
> I volunteer to test any patches if/when they are created after the SDK is
> released.
>


Again me .. Well the SDK is *still* not released ..  The Intel folks
said back in August :

"The latest word is that the SDK is being prepared for approval but it
is contingent upon an upcoming platform release."

( whatever that means )


Anyway Andriy Gapon has posted on lm-sensors some nice tool to read
the sensors output ( thx :) )
(http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2009-October/026830.html)

Today I'm out from hospital so I've decided to quick hack this tool
and make it work on Linux.

Here the output from my DQ45CB mobo:

crazy@thor:~/INTEL/QST/Li$ sudo ./heci-qst
CPU  Temp:      56.00   °C
MB   Temp:      31.14   °C
ICH  Temp:      67.37   °C
MCH  Temp:      66.00   °C
CPU  Fan:       1080    RPM
INL  Fan:       1202    RPM
OUTL Fan:       288     RPM
+12  Volts:     11.965  V
+5   Volts:     5.021   V
+3.3 Volts:     3.316   V
MCH  Vccp:      1.122   V
CPU1 Vccp:      1.125   V

Justin I know is not based on released SDK of Intel but maybe you
still want to do some tests ?:)

( of course you need the heci kernel modules first )

@Andriy there is a smallish bug in your original code .. you should
use ..... , abs(value) ...., abs(value) ...);
that will solve the negative CPU TEMP values you get with your version.

Best Regards,

Gabriel C

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