[lm-sensors] Backporting coretemp and w83793 to 2.6.18

[Darth Tumi]

Sorry, this question is about one archived post
(http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2007-August/021007.html)
by Boleslaw Ciesielski... (bellow)

Any help will be appreciated.

> Boleslaw Ciesielski wrote:
> > I have this new server based on the Asus DSBF-DE/SAS motherboard and a
> > pair of Xeons 5355. I want to run CentOS 5.0 (RHEL 5 clone) on it.
> > CentOS 5.0 is based on the 2.6.18 kernel and as such has drivers for
> > everything *except* for the sensors. The motherboard uses 83793 chip.
> > 
> > So, I wanted to backport the w83793 and coretemp drivers to 2.6.18
> > kernel. I took the source from 2.6.22.3 for these two and tried to
> > compile them for 2.6.18.
> > 
> > The w83793 compiles and loads as is, without any changes.
> > 
> > coretemp required some changes related to msr so I just restored the
> > code that was in there when coretemp was floating around as a patch
> > before it made it to the kernel. See the attached patch for detail.
> > 
> > Anyway, with those changes both coretemp and w83793 compile and load. I
> > also copied sensors.conf from 2.10.4 and ran "sensors -s". However,
> > neither is providing any data. Output looks like this:
> 
> Just a quick update. I got reply off-list that I am missing the new 
> versions of the user tools. I installed 2.10.4 rpm from Fedora 7 and I 
> get the readings now.
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Bolek





 

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