NAME

aiboost - ASUS AI Booster hardware monitor

SYNOPSIS

aiboost* at acpi?

DESCRIPTION

The aiboost driver provides support for monitoring the hardware sensors in recent ASUS motherboards. The driver uses ACPI as the backend to fetch sensor values and descriptions and provides its data via the envsys(4) interface.

The aiboost driver typically has 7 sensors, depending on the motherboard and chipset:

Sensor Units Typical Use
CPU uK CPU Temperature
MB uK MB Temperature
VCC uV DC Core Voltage
+3.3V uV DC +3.3 Voltage
+5V uV DC +5 Voltage
+12V uV DC +12 Voltage
CPU RPM CPU Fan

SEE ALSO

envsys(4), envstat(8)

HISTORY

The aiboost driver first appeared in FreeBSD and then it was ported to NetBSD5.0.

AUTHORS

The aiboost driver was written by Takanori Watanabe and Juan Romero Pardines, who adapted the code for NetBSD.

BUGS

It's possible to modify voltages via the ACPI methods in the DSDT, but for now the driver only reports the sensors' values. CPU Q-Fan is another thing that is typically specified in the ACPI namespace, and in the future we should handle this feature (to enable or disable automatic/manual fan mode).