https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23551





--- Comment #9 from Artem S. Tashkinov <t.ar...@mailcity.com>  2012-10-30 
20:52:44 ---
(In reply to comment #8)
> If the power values can be queried through MSRs, then we can have a kernel
> driver implementing the standard hwmon sysfs interface for libsensors to
> consume. We could even add this to the coretemp driver. Just because MSRs can
> be read from user-space (by root only!) is not a valid excuse for not doing it
> in a kernel driver, as this is how hardware monitoring is implemented on 
> Linux.
> 
> Where are these MSRs documented?
> 
> Unfortunately these MSRs seem to have been introduced after Nehalem-EP so I
> will have no easy way to test.

http://download.intel.com/products/processor/manual/325462.pdf

Vol. 3B 14-19: 14.7.1 RAPL Interfaces - but I'm not sure that's what we need.

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