Short-Lived ASUS Sensors Linux Driver Being Removed In Favor Of Better Alternative

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Short-Lived ASUS Sensors Linux Driver Being Removed In Favor Of Better Alternative

Mainlined to the Linux kernel less than one year ago was the "asus_wmi_ec_sensors" for supporting temperature / fan speed / CPU current sensor reading on a variety of newer ASUS motherboards. That driver is now being removed as a superior driver is taking over the ASUS motherboard sensor reading duties...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Drop-ASUS-WMI-EC-Sensors

[katt]

Looks like this new driver also has support for fans, hopefully I can finally ditch the it87 driver!

EDIT: I was mixing up asus and gigabyte drivers, guess I won't be ditching the it87 driver after all.

[Brisse]

Sadly I think this means I'll never see my PRIME X370-PRO getting proper sensors support in mainline Linux-kernel.

It was never supported by asus_wmi_ec_sensors because the BIOS didn't support wmi at the time the driver was developed, but a BIOS-update (not sure which exactly, but somewhat recent) added wmi-support so I'm pretty sure asus_wmi_ec_sensors could have supported this board if it was added to the driver.

Meanwhile, I don't expect the new ASUS_EC_Sensors will ever support this board.

[nabajour]

Sadly I think this means I'll never see my PRIME X370-PRO getting proper sensors support in mainline Linux-kernel.

It was never supported by asus_wmi_ec_sensors because the BIOS didn't support wmi at the time the driver was developed, but a BIOS-update (not sure which exactly, but somewhat recent) added wmi-support so I'm pretty sure asus_wmi_ec_sensors could have supported this board if it was added to the driver.

Meanwhile, I don't expect the new ASUS_EC_Sensors will ever support this board.

I looks like someone is trying to add support for another X370 board (a Crosshair VI Hero WiFi AC) , if they get it to work for that chip, maybe, by fishing a bit around and tweaking some parameters, you could get it to work with your motherboard.

[alvinde]

Looks like this new driver also has support for fans, hopefully I can finally ditch the it87 driver!

They should split the driver up and concentrate on it doing only one thing, and one thing well. They could call it onlyfans.

[tildearrow]

They should split the driver up and concentrate on it doing only one thing, and one thing well. They could call it onlyfans.

And with support for 18+ sensors, we'll finally catch up to HWiNFO64!

[Quackdoc]

do any motherboards report the wattage being drawn over pcie?

[billyswong]

Looks like this new driver also has support for fans, hopefully I can finally ditch the it87 driver!

EDIT: I was mixing up asus and gigabyte drivers, guess I won't be ditching the it87 driver after all.

My Asus B450 board looks still not supported by the new mainline driver. I miss my fan speed reading when the it87 still worked.

[ResponseWriter]

Sadly I think this means I'll never see my PRIME X370-PRO getting proper sensors support in mainline Linux-kernel.

It was never supported by asus_wmi_ec_sensors because the BIOS didn't support wmi at the time the driver was developed, but a BIOS-update (not sure which exactly, but somewhat recent) added wmi-support so I'm pretty sure asus_wmi_ec_sensors could have supported this board if it was added to the driver.

Meanwhile, I don't expect the new ASUS_EC_Sensors will ever support this board.

I had a prime x370-pro and thought it had fairly good support. At least I could control the fans, unlike on my Crosshair 7 Hero.

You can try to get support added with the right information. See last section in readme: https://github.com/zeule/asus-ec-sensors

[Brisse]

I had a prime x370-pro and thought it had fairly good support. At least I could control the fans, unlike on my Crosshair 7 Hero.

You can try to get support added with the right information. See last section in readme: https://github.com/zeule/asus-ec-sensors

I've followed those instructions, but it doesn't return anything useful sadly.

Not that it's a huge deal for me personally. I set everything in the BIOS-interface and leave it like that, and I have a set of fan parameters I know are good for my system in a wide range of room temperatures and system loads. It's more out of curiosity that I've been eying the development of these drivers.