amdtemp — device driver for AMD processor on-die digital thermal sensor
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Caveats
For Family 10h and later processors, “(the reported temperature) is a non-physical temperature measured
on an arbitrary scale and it does not represent an actual physical temperature like die or case
temperature. Instead, it specifies the processor temperature relative to the point at which the system
must supply the maximum cooling for the processor's specified maximum case temperature and maximum
thermal power dissipation” according to BIOSandKernelDeveloper'sGuide(BKDG)forAMDProcessors,
http://developer.amd.com/resources/developer-guides-manuals/.
Debian September 5, 2017 AMDTEMP(4)
Description
The amdtemp driver provides support for the on-die digital thermal sensor present in AMD Family 0Fh, 10h,
11h, 12h, 14h, 15h, 16h, and 17h processors.
For Family 0Fh processors, the amdtemp driver reports each core's temperature through sysctl nodes, named
dev.amdtemp.%d.core{0,1}.sensor{0,1}. The driver also creates dev.cpu.%d.temperature in the
corresponding CPU device's sysctl tree, displaying the maximum temperature of the two sensors located in
each CPU core.
For Family 10h, 11h, 12h, 14h, 15h, 16h, and 17h processors, the driver reports each package's
temperature through a sysctl node, named dev.amdtemp.%d.core0.sensor0. The driver also creates
dev.cpu.%d.temperature in the corresponding CPU device's sysctl tree, displaying the temperature of the
shared sensor located in each CPU package.
History
The amdtemp driver first appeared in FreeBSD 7.1.
Name
amdtemp — device driver for AMD processor on-die digital thermal sensor
See Also
loader(8), sysctl(8)
Synopsis
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following line in your kernel configuration file:
deviceamdtemp
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):
amdtemp_load="YES"
Sysctl Variables
The following variable is available as both sysctl(8) variable and loader(8) tunable:
dev.amdtemp.%d.sensor_offset
Add the given offset to the temperature of the sensor. Default is 0.
