freebsd man page for coretemp

CORETEMP(4)						   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 					       CORETEMP(4)

NAME
     coretemp -- device driver for Intel Core on-die digital thermal sensor

SYNOPSIS
     To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following line in your kernel configuration file:

	   device coretemp

     Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

	   coretemp_load="YES"

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

     The coretemp driver reports each core's temperature through a sysctl node in the corresponding CPU device's sysctl tree, named
     dev.cpu.%d.temperature.

SEE ALSO
     sysctl(8)

HISTORY
     The coretemp driver first appeared in FreeBSD 7.0.

AUTHORS
     The coretemp driver was written by Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org> as part of a Google Summer of Code project.  This manual page was written
     by Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@FreeBSD.org>.

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