Linux Will Finally Report Temperatures For Certain AMD Excavator CPUs

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux Will Finally Report Temperatures For Certain AMD Excavator CPUs

Besides the Linux "k10temp" AMD CPU temperature reporting driver recently seeing support for Threadripper 2 temperature monitoring, much older Excavator (Bulldozer 4th Gen) processors will now see working CPU temperature reporting for select models...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Excavator-More-CPU-Temps

[finalzone]

Steamroller is missing for the support.

[Dukenukemx]

This needed to happen years ago.

[humbug]

Kinda scary how something so basic was neglected.

[rene]

We are likely talking one-liner code change, right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwfyMLMN4is

[Darknation]

Finally! I still have an old 8350 HTPC that I would like to get proper reporting on.

[andrei_me]

Kinda scary how something so basic was neglected.

I believe in the next 2 CPU releases they will remember to check hwmon, they missed it on Zen, Zen+, Michael asked them during the release of TR2, maybe they get it right now