~Q Group Chat [AMP Laboratory Kitchen: 679837318]~In a limping state
Technology media Phoronix published a blog post on August 9, reporting that the email of the engineer maintaining the coretemp driver has become invalid, and the driver project has been set to ‘orphaned’.
Coretemp is a hardware monitoring driver in the Linux kernel used to read data from the digital temperature sensors (DTS) built into Intel processors. It can monitor the temperature of each CPU core and the entire CPU package, serving as the basis for many system monitoring tools (such as the sensors command).
Intel Linux engineer Dave Hansen updated the patch yesterday, stating: “The maintainer’s email has become invalid, and I have removed them from the maintainer list. Please temporarily mark this driver as ‘orphaned’.”
The Coretemp project was maintained by Intel Linux engineer Fenghua Yu, who has worked at Intel since March 2000, serving as a senior software engineer and Linux kernel project lead, with over 24 years of industry experience. He has long been dedicated to Linux kernel development, making significant contributions to Intel hardware support.
He stepped down from maintaining this module at the beginning of 2025, and the project is currently in an ‘orphaned’ state.
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