coretemp — device driver for Intel Core on-die digital thermal sensor
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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.
History
The coretemp driver first appeared in FreeBSD 7.0.
Name
coretemp — device driver for Intel Core on-die digital thermal sensor
See Also
sysctl(8)
Synopsis
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following line in your kernel configuration file:
devicecoretemp
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):
coretemp_load="YES"
