On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 12:21:55PM +0100, Douglas Eadline wrote: > On 26 Oct 1998, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > In article <70uvpv$1ib$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Utz-Uwe Haus) writes: > > > Douglas Ridgway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Gavin M. Roy wrote: > > > > >>> Anyone know of a package to get cpu temp from the bios? my motherboard > > >>> supports this, but I am unaware of a program to us. > > > > >> There's a bunch of different packages floating around, and they are all > > >> called lm78. > > > Well, not quite. > > > For you folks out there stricken with the Gigabyte 'ACOPS'-health monitor > > > there is AFAIK no way to use the lm-package. However there is a tiny modules > > > for these boards too (the ACOPS design is braindead and delivers about that > > > much info only.) An old package should be floating around the net (search > > > for acops.*), or ask me for a 2.1-patched version. > > > Or get an ASUS board [which I wish I had done] > > > > Also be very careful with the lm78 code floating around. The version I have > > seen uses floating point in the kernel, which is forbidden in Linux. Result > > is that it will randomly corrupt the floating point registers of innocent > > user processes. I reported it to the maintainer, but never got an answer. > > What package and version did you have problems with? /************************************************************************** * lm78 implementation for tx boards v0.1 * * (c) Ronald Schmidt 1997 [...] I don't know if there is a newer version that fixes the bug. The correct fix is to use fixed point arithmetic instead of FP (saving and restoring the FPU state is probably not worth it in this case) -Andi
