RE: [lm-sensors] coretemp: Support for Intel Atom E6XX CPU(TunnelCreek)?

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Mon Jun 27 2011 - 12:51:09 EST


On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 12:40 -0400, R, Durgadoss wrote:
> Hi Guenter,
>
> > I thought about replacing the manual TjMax detection code with code
> > using the model string to take care of problems like this - essentially
> > by providing a table with entries { model string, Tjmax } for each CPU
> > with Tjmax other than 100 degrees C. This way we could get rid of some
> > of the odd code we have today. Would that make sense ?
>
> I completely agree with you here.
> This way, a lot of code in get_tjmax will be reduced, by just
> a search through some array.
>
Unfortunately, looking at Alexander's /proc/cpuinfo output, it looks
like the E6xx chips have no mention of E6xx in the CPU ID string, which
unfortunately kills the idea.

Do you know if there is _any_ means to distinguish E6xx from E6xxT ?

Thanks,
Guenter


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