Re: [PATCH] hwmon: (k10temp) Add support for family 17h

From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.com>,
	linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hwmon: (k10temp) Add support for family 17h
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 06:35:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1e168fdb-862f-60f1-d119-918e00aac1f5@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0565cf17-62d9-e319-8fe5-fbdf2d69335a@ladisch.de>

On 09/04/2017 11:47 PM, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> Add support for temperature sensors on Family 17h (Ryzen) processors.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
>> ---
>> Some of this is guesswork, but afaics it is working. No idea if there
>> is a better way to determine the temperature offset.
> 
> The reported value is not an absolute temperature on any CPU.
> 
> As far as I know, the offset is not guaranteed to be fixed for any model,
> i.e., it would be pointless to apply the offset observed on one specific
> chip.
> 

What we should do then, as we did for coretemp, would be to collect the various
temperature offsets (and temperature limits, for that matter) and apply per-CPU
adjustments. Are the offsets documented somewhere ?

>> @@ -25,6 +25,10 @@
>>   #include <linux/pci.h>
>>   #include <asm/processor.h>
>>
>> +#ifndef PCI_DEVICE_ID_AMD_17H_DF_F3
>> +#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_AMD_17H_DF_F3	0x1463
>> +#endif
>> +
> 
> Please move this down to the other symbols.
> 
Done.

Thanks,
Guenter