coretemp(4freebsd)

coretemp4freebsd

Device driver for intel core on-die digital thermal sensor

Usage

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"

Overview

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.

Releases

9 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); the text changed 6 times.

  1. 5.0
  2. 6.0
  3. 7
  4. 8
  5. 9
  6. 10
  7. 11–13

History

The coretemp driver first appeared in FreeBSD 7.0.

Authors

The coretemp driver was written by Rui Paulo ⟨[email protected]⟩ as part of a Google Summer of Code project. This manual page was written by Dag-Erling Smørgrav ⟨[email protected]⟩.

From freebsd-manpages 12.2-2 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.