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34 .Nd ASUS AI Booster hardware monitor
36 To compile this driver into the kernel,
37 place the following line in your
38 kernel configuration file:
39 .Bd -ragged -offset indent
40 .Cd "device acpi_aiboost"
43 Alternatively, to load the driver as a
44 module at boot time, place the following line in
46 .Bd -literal -offset indent
47 acpi_aiboost_load="YES"
52 driver provides support for monitoring the hardware sensors in recent
55 The driver uses ACPI as the backend to fetch sensor values and
56 descriptions and provides its data via the
58 interface, under dev.acpi_aiboost.0 namespace.
59 Descriptions for these values are available
64 driver typically has 7 sensors, depending on the motherboard and
66 .Bl -column "Sensor" "Units" "Typical" -offset indent
67 .It Sy "Sensor" Ta Sy "Units" Ta Sy "Typical Use"
68 .It Li "CPU" Ta "uK" Ta "CPU Temperature"
69 .It Li "MB" Ta "uK" Ta "MB Temperature"
70 .It Li "VCC" Ta "uV DC" Ta "Core Voltage"
71 .It Li "+3.3V" Ta "uV DC" Ta "+3.3 Voltage"
72 .It Li "+5V" Ta "uV DC" Ta "+5 Voltage"
73 .It Li "+12V" Ta "uV DC" Ta "+12 Voltage"
74 .It Li "CPU" Ta "RPM" Ta "CPU Fan"
83 driver first appeared in
90 .An Takanori Watanabe .
91 This manual page was written by
92 .An Juan Romero Pardines ,
93 who adapted the code for
95 and adopted back to FreeBSD by
96 .An Takanori Watanabe .
98 It's possible to modify voltages via the ACPI methods in the DSDT,
99 but for now the driver only reports the sensors' values.
100 CPU Q-Fan is another thing that is typically specified in the ACPI
101 namespace, and in the future we should handle this feature (to
102 enable or disable automatic/manual fan mode).