Intel's Linux Exodus: Are you Worried?

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Hi all, :waving_hand:

I just read the article:

and it seems a less than good development is upon us. :neutral_face:

  • Critical Intel Linux Drivers Abandoned

  • The biggest concern is the coretemp driver, which monitors CPU temperatures on Intel processors. Fenghua Yu, who maintained it for years, has left Intel for NVIDIA. Thereā€™s no replacement maintainer lined up

  • Other drivers are also affected

etc.

What about you?
How much do you worry?

Many greetings from Rosika :slightly_smiling_face:

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I have not been worried about it. But that would probably change if it did end up affecting me, of course.

Hopefully, someone will become a maintainer for things formerly maintained by Intel.

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@pdecker :

Hi, :waving_hand:

thanks for providing your opinion about it. :heart:

My CPU is an ā€œIntel i3-3240T (4) @ 2.900GHzā€ on my Lenovo-H520e desktop PC.
For now IĀ“m not so much worried either as I plan to use my current Linux Lite 6.2 installation as long as itĀ“s supported (until April 2027).

LetĀ“s see how things will develop.

Many greetings from Rosika :slightly_smiling_face:

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Hi Rosika,
I think existing CPUā€™s have the drivers for temp monitoring. It is unlikely that any maintenance changes would be needed. However new CPUā€™s may be without support unless they find a new maintainer.
Regards
Neville

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Hi Neville, :waving_hand:

thanks for your post. :heart:

Right. Temp monitoring has been working well for me from the beginning. EverythingĀ“s o.k. at the moment.

As far as drivers are concerned itĀ“s not only the coretemp driver which might become critical.
In future things to look out for would be:

  • coretemp driver (for monitoring CPU temperature) # you commented on that already
  • the Intel Ethernet RDMA driver
  • the WWAN ISOM driver (used for older M.2 modems)
  • Intel PTP DFL ToD driver (FPGA time-of-day device)
  • Keem Bay DRM driver
  • T7XX 5G WWAN driver

LetĀ“s hope for new maintainers. Fingers crossed. :crossed_fingers:

Many greetings from Rosika :slightly_smiling_face:

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An excellent discussion topic.

One of my first reasons for moving to Linux from Windows was to do Crypto Mining. On Windows there was a plethora of system monitoring tools.

But when I made the move to Ubuntu, GUI based System monitoring tools were not pre-installed and when I did install some, they either

  • didnā€™t work,
  • didnā€™t have a nice graphical user interface, and/or ā€¦
  • The data was inaccurate or didnā€™t even read the CPU temperature for my Intel i5 4590T, Zeonor my Xeon E3 series CPUs.

Thank you @Rosika for posting this topic as it took me back in time started converting my miners from Windows to Linux and to a to.e when I was hint dor the best CPU team monitor. the frustration of testing many different CPU temperature monitoring tool.

I ended up finding a CPU Temp momitor app that worked (had the Intel drivers) and kt is an opensource app is called PSensor and has a nice easy to use GUI.

To install Psensor, type this in terminal :-

sudo apt-get install psensor

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@MV02 :

Hi Mark, :waving_hand:

thanks for your comments on the subject.

psensor seems to be a great GUI application.

Looks like Psensor is a graphical solution for Lm sensors that not only reads out the Lm sensor values, but also the CPU usage and temperatures and displays it graphically.

I think I tried it out once, but thatĀ“s many years ago and I almost forgot about it.
Thanks for reminding me of it. :wink:

Many greetings from Rosika :slightly_smiling_face:

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