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29.Dd March 2, 2012
30.Dt AMDTEMP 4
31.Os
32.Sh NAME
33.Nm amdtemp
34.Nd AMD CPU on-die digital thermal sensor
35.Sh SYNOPSIS
36.Cd "amdtemp* at pchb?"
37.Sh DESCRIPTION
38The
39.Nm
40driver provides support for the on-die digital thermal sensor present
41on AMD K8, AMD Barcelona, AMD Phenom, AMD Griffin, and AMD Fusion CPUs.
42.Pp
43These sensors were officially introduced in AMD K8 Revision F processors,
44and provide 0.5 degC accuracy.
45Precision was improved in Revision
46G chips, which provide two more bits for 0.25 degC steppings.
47Each core
48has two temperature sensors, and there are up to two cores per CPU socket.
49.Pp
50AMD Barcelona, AMD Phenom, AMD Griffin, and AMD Fusion provide 0.125 degC
51accuracy and provide one temperature sensor for each CPU socket.
52.Pp
53The
54.Nm
55driver reports temperatures through the
56.Xr envsys 4
57API.
58.Bl -column "Sensor    " "Units" "Typical" -offset indent
59.It Sy "Sensor     " Ta Sy "Units" Ta Sy "Typical Use"
60.It Li "CPUN sensor0" Ta "uK" Ta "cpuN temperature"
61.El
62.Sh SEE ALSO
63.Xr envsys 4 ,
64.Xr envstat 8 ,
65.Xr powerd 8
66.Sh HISTORY
67The
68.Nm
69driver first appeared in
70.Ox 4.4
71named
72.Dq kate .
73It was then ported to
74.Nx 5.0 .
75The driver has been renamed with support for newer AMD CPUs.
76.Sh AUTHORS
77.An -nosplit
78The
79.Nm
80driver was written by
81.An Constantine A. Murenin Aq Mt cnst@openbsd.org
82whilst at the University of Waterloo.
83It was adapted to
84.Nx
85by
86.An Christoph Egger .
87