The hardware monitoring “HWMON” subsystem updates are building up ahead of the Linux 6.15 merge window opening up later this month. Here is a look at a few of the HWMON changes worth mentioning to be found in this next version of the Linux kernel.
For those with an ASUS PRIME X670E-PRO WIFI motherboard, support for the PRIME X670E-PRO WIFI is being added to the ASUS EC Sensors driver. This gets CPU temperature monitoring, package temperature monitoring, VRM and board temperatures, and CPU fan speed reporting to work under Linux for this AMD X670E AM5 motherboard.
The LM90 driver meanwhile is adding support for the Nuvoton NCT7716, NCT7717 and NCT7718 ASICs.
Following work on getting the AMD BC-250 Bitcoin/crypto mining card working for graphics and experimental Vulkan driver support for this mining card, there is now thermal monitoring under Linux for the BC-250. Linux 6.15 will support reading the BC-250’s RDNA GPU temperatures via the nct6683 HWMON driver. There is also support added to the k10temp driver for Cyan Skillfish as part of this BC-250 temperature sensor work.
The AMD BC-250 mining cards have been seeing an uptick in open-source driver work recently for those looking at buying one of these cards second-hand for $50~100 USD.
More details on all of the hardware monitoring “HWMON” patches queuing up for the upcoming Linux 6.15 merge window can be found via hwmon-next.
