CORETEMP(4)

NAME
coretemp - Intel Core on-die digital thermal sensor

SYNOPSIS
options INTEL_CORETEMP

DESCRIPTION
The coretemp driver provides support for the on-die digital thermal sensor present on Intel Core and newer CPUs.

The coretemp driver reports each core's temperature through the envsys(4) API. The driver has only 1 temperature sensor:
Sensor | Units | Typical Use
sensor0 | uK | cpuN temperature

EVENTS
The coretemp driver is able to send a critical event to the /etc/powerd/scripts/sensor_temperature powerd(8) script (if running) when the temperature has reached a critical state.

SEE ALSO
envstat(4), powerd(8)

HISTORY
The coretemp driver first appeared in FreeBSD 7.0. And then was ported to NetBSD 5.0.

AUTHORS
-nosplit The coretemp driver was written by Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org> as part of a Google Summer of Code project. It was adapted to NetBSD by Juan Romero Pardines.