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On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 12:19:20PM +0200, Christian Stalp wrote:
> does anybody know how the information about the cpu-temperatur get into
> the "/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature"?

The kernel does some ACPI calls to get the temperature. The ACPI
subsystem can do whatever magic required to get the temperature
(including SMM traps). For all the gory details, see
drivers/acpi/thermal.c .


Erik

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