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diff --git a/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt b/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt index e50595bfd8ea..30f09e7a423e 100644 --- a/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt +++ b/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt @@ -398,25 +398,56 @@ Temperature sensors -- /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal Most ThinkPads include six or more separate temperature sensors but only expose the CPU temperature through the standard ACPI methods. -This feature shows readings from up to eight different sensors. Some -readings may not be valid, e.g. may show large negative values. For -example, on the X40, a typical output may be: +This feature shows readings from up to eight different sensors on older +ThinkPads, and it has experimental support for up to sixteen different +sensors on newer ThinkPads. Readings from sensors that are not available +return -128. +No commands can be written to this file. + +EXPERIMENTAL: The 16-sensors feature is marked EXPERIMENTAL because the +implementation directly accesses hardware registers and may not work as +expected. USE WITH CAUTION! To use this feature, you need to supply the +experimental=1 parameter when loading the module. When EXPERIMENTAL +mode is enabled, reading the first 8 sensors on newer ThinkPads will +also use an new experimental thermal sensor access mode. + +For example, on the X40, a typical output may be: temperatures: 42 42 45 41 36 -128 33 -128 -Thomas Gruber took his R51 apart and traced all six active sensors in -his laptop (the location of sensors may vary on other models): +EXPERIMENTAL: On the T43/p, a typical output may be: +temperatures: 48 48 36 52 38 -128 31 -128 48 52 48 -128 -128 -128 -128 -128 + +The mapping of thermal sensors to physical locations varies depending on +system-board model (and thus, on ThinkPad model). + +http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Thermal_Sensors is a public wiki page that +tries to track down these locations for various models. + +Most (newer?) models seem to follow this pattern: 1: CPU -2: Mini PCI Module -3: HDD +2: (depends on model) +3: (depends on model) 4: GPU -5: Battery -6: N/A -7: Battery -8: N/A +5: Main battery: main sensor +6: Bay battery: main sensor +7: Main battery: secondary sensor +8: Bay battery: secondary sensor +9-15: (depends on model) + +For the R51 (source: Thomas Gruber): +2: Mini-PCI +3: Internal HDD + +For the T43, T43/p (source: Shmidoax/Thinkwiki.org) +http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Thermal_Sensors#ThinkPad_T43.2C_T43p +2: System board, left side (near PCMCIA slot), reported as HDAPS temp +3: PCMCIA slot +9: MCH (northbridge) to DRAM Bus +10: ICH (southbridge), under Mini-PCI card, under touchpad +11: Power regulator, underside of system board, below F2 key -No commands can be written to this file. EXPERIMENTAL: Embedded controller register dump -- /proc/acpi/ibm/ecdump ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |