Linux 5.12 To Allow Voltage/Temperature Reporting On Some ASRock Motherboards

[torsionbar28]

IMO this is yet another reason to buy from a vendor like System76 who has open source firmware on the mobo's embedded controller.

[pieman]

I have a Gigabyte X570 Aorus Master with an ITE IT8688E SuperIO and I'm really annoyed that it doesn't work and probably never will. Would've bought another board if I realized this before buying. I even wrote ITE a support ticket, but they said it's a specific design for a customer and they can't give out the datasheet - and Gigabyte told me they don't give the datasheet out to end users. Grmpf!

Edit:
there is even this discouraging bug report: https://github.com/lm-sensors/lm-sensors/issues/154

which is a lie considering hwinfo AND aida64 has support for it

[Zan Lynx]

which is a lie considering hwinfo AND aida64 has support for it

They reverse engineer it and get behind the scenes leaks from motherboard engineers. Which is why I think we should just use reverse engineered drivers in Linux.

Linux is never going to get official spec sheets for this stuff.

I don't really understand the NDA junk the chip vendors do. It isn't as if they can hide the machine code that operates the chip so who are they kidding? I believe the general excuse is they don't want to enable cheap replacement chips from other vendors (cough, China, hah).

[Drago]

So, long story short, my PC died. Woke up and it acted like it wouldn't resume from a blanked monitor but I also wasn't able to Ctl+Alt+F# into another terminal either and had to hard reboot. According to the POST lights and testing with 3 processors, multiple SATA cables, a Linux and Windows boot drive, and 2 GPUs I thought it was either the motherboard or PSU so I ordered both. Hooked up a minimal setup and got the same POST lights on the new MB and PSU, only adding a 4th CPU to the testing since the motherboard came with a CPU in the slot. I guess I have bad ram? I just can't imagine that all six of my ram sticks died...

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Since my stimulus check came in I have to ask if an X570 is worth it over a B550 just for PCIE gen 4. I've got the gist of a Ryzen 5 4650 Pro build dialed in and I'm wondering if the extra $50 would be worth it because ECC is damn expensive and $500 out of my ~$700 budget is the CPU and ram, but a Pro APU with ECC memory in a custom build, yes please. I'm typing this from a keyboard plugged into my Android TV where the arrow keys work as a mouse cursor and enter acts as primary click. I don't know how to line break enter yet.

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This seemed like a decent place to ask since it's a motherboard article. Any idea WTF is up with my PC? The only thing I don't have extra to test is sticks of ram. Just curious at this point. I really wanted an extra year before upgrading...dammit...forced upgrades fscking suck. And, yes, I did the one stick of ram at a time thing. Spent the greater part of yesterday doing as many HW combinations as possible. And I don't have any actual Gen 4 hardware aside from the APU I plan on getting.

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Dude...., 4650G has only PCIE 3.0 support. If you don't plan to upgrade the CPU or not planning to overclock, you may even go lower like A520.
I have 4650G with ASRock A520M Pro4 and 32GB 3600MT/s CL16 RAM. Works just fine with XMP and all, including the k10temp. Where I live, CPU+MB was 260 Euro.

https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/6318583

[skeevy420]

Dude...., 4650G has only PCIE 3.0 support. If you don't plan to upgrade the CPU or not planning to overclock, you may even go lower like A520.
I have 4650G with ASRock A520M Pro4 and 32GB 3600MT/s CL16 RAM. Works just fine with XMP and all, including the k10temp. Where I live, CPU+MB was 260 Euro.

https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/6318583

It ended up running me around 300 Euro for a 4650g and a Gigabyte DS3H B550M paired with 32gb 3600 CL18. Just waiting for the processor to arrive and I'll be back in business.