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CORETEMP(4) FreeBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual CORETEMP(4)
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.conf(5):
coretemp_load="YES"
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.
SEE ALSO
amdtemp(4), sysctl(8)
HISTORY
The coretemp driver first appeared in FreeBSD 7.0.
AUTHORS
The coretemp driver was written by Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org> as part
of a Google Summer of Code project. This manual page was written by
Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@FreeBSD.org>.
FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p6 August 23, 2007 FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p6