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31 .Nd ASUS AI Booster hardware monitor
33 .Cd "aiboost* at acpi?"
37 driver provides support for monitoring the hardware sensors in recent
40 The driver uses ACPI as the backend to fetch sensor values and
41 descriptions and provides its data via the
47 driver typically has 7 sensors, depending on the motherboard and
49 .Bl -column "Sensor" "Units" "Typical" -offset indent
50 .It Sy "Sensor" Ta Sy "Units" Ta Sy "Typical Use"
51 .It Li "CPU" Ta "uK" Ta "CPU Temperature"
52 .It Li "MB" Ta "uK" Ta "MB Temperature"
53 .It Li "VCC" Ta "uV DC" Ta "Core Voltage"
54 .It Li "+3.3V" Ta "uV DC" Ta "+3.3 Voltage"
55 .It Li "+5V" Ta "uV DC" Ta "+5 Voltage"
56 .It Li "+12V" Ta "uV DC" Ta "+12 Voltage"
57 .It Li "CPU" Ta "RPM" Ta "CPU Fan"
65 driver first appeared in
67 and then it was ported to
76 .An Juan Romero Pardines ,
77 who adapted the code for
80 It's possible to modify voltages via the ACPI methods in the DSDT,
81 but for now the driver only reports the sensors' values.
82 CPU Q-Fan is another thing that is typically specified in the ACPI
83 namespace, and in the future we should handle this feature (to
84 enable or disable automatic/manual fan mode).