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Operating Systems Linux Ubuntu Phenom II support in kernel Post 302880152 by Varsel on Tuesday 17th of December 2013 05:25:46 PM

12-17-2013

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Originally Posted by Corona688

2.6.30 is a very old kernel kernel by now, and 9.04 a very old Ubuntu. I suspect the processor would be the least of your problems in trying to run a new board on such an old kernel -- a variety of drivers would likely be missing or broken.

There are no Phenom-related options in my much newer kernel. As I suspected it must still all go under the Opteron family. Perhaps there's some specific driver or bug they had in mind when they said 2.6.30.

Well, not sure I'm understanding what you are saying. I'm not planning to upgrade my motherboard. Ahh, let's start over. My Phenom X4 is working quite well with both my operating systems (Debian 5.0 & Ubuntu 9.04), so I have no great need to upgrade my CPU, but I have an opportunity to buy couple of new Phenom II X6 processors at bargain price. Was told on another forum that neither the Debian 5.0 nor Ubuntu 9.04 could handle Phenom II X6 due to some lack of support, bug in the kernel, or whatever. True or false?

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amdtemp

AMDTEMP(4)						   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						AMDTEMP(4)

NAME

     amdtemp -- AMD CPU on-die digital thermal sensor

SYNOPSIS

     amdtemp* at pchb?

DESCRIPTION

     The amdtemp driver provides support for the on-die digital thermal sensor present on AMD K8, AMD Barcelona, AMD Phenom, AMD Griffin, and AMD
     Fusion CPUs.

     These sensors were officially introduced in AMD K8 Revision F processors, and provide 0.5 degC accuracy.  Precision was improved in Revision
     G chips, which provide two more bits for 0.25 degC steppings.  Each core has two temperature sensors, and there are up to two cores per CPU
     socket.

     AMD Barcelona, AMD Phenom, AMD Griffin, and AMD Fusion provide 0.125 degC accuracy and provide one temperature sensor for each CPU socket.

     The amdtemp driver reports temperatures through the envsys(4) API.

	   Sensor	 Units	  Typical Use
	   CPUN sensor0  uK	  cpuN temperature

SEE ALSO

     envsys(4), envstat(8), powerd(8)

HISTORY

     The amdtemp driver first appeared in OpenBSD 4.4 named ``kate''.  It was then ported to NetBSD 5.0.  The driver has been renamed with support
     for newer AMD CPUs.

AUTHORS

     The amdtemp driver was written by Constantine A. Murenin <cnst@openbsd.org> whilst at the University of Waterloo.	It was adapted to NetBSD
     by Christoph Egger.

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