On the first of October we talked about a new LM_Sensors patch that
supports new AMD CPUs and it had arrived almost immediately after the release of
LM_Sensors 3.0.3. With almost a month having by since we last talked about this open-source hardware sensor monitoring project, there are a number of new patches that have come about to support new hardware.
A patch has been added so that there's an hwmon driver for the
ADT7462, which is an ASIC that supports up to 4 fans, 4 temperatures, and 13 voltage sensors. A new driver
has been introduced for the Integrated Circuits ICS932S401. For those with an IT8720 controller, that support has been
added to the IT87 driver. Some of the other hardware now supported in LM_Sensors through these recent patches include the
Linear Technology LTC4245 Multiple Supply Hot Swap controller and
Texas Instruments / Burr Brown INA209.
The LM_Sensors library, libsensors, has also received support for
instantaneous power sensors. You may recall a few weeks ago when Apple introduced
NVIDIA-powered MacBooks and those too are now supported by LM_Sensors on Linux. The MacBook 5 and iMac 5 are
now supported with their sensors.
Also new within the LM_Sensors project this month are a number of Eee PC hwmon interface fixes, various other hwmon patches, and more driver fixes. There's also some
hwmon updates for the
Linux 2.6.28 kernel.
A member of the
Phoronix Forums has also written a utility to view the thermal sensor on
Intel 945 and
Intel 965 Chipsets (
forum thread). He is now looking at adding this support to LM_Sensors. This developer had written the support based upon
Intel's G35/965 documentation they had publicly released. Meanwhile, AMD still hasn't released their
Radeon sensors documentation.