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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 configura‐
     tion 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 correspond‐
     ing 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 <@FreeBSD.org> as part of a Google Summer
     of Code project.  This manual page was written by Dag-Erling Smørgrav <@FreeBSD.org>.

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