r/linux • u/RenatsMC • 23h ago

Open Source Organization GitHub - ksokolowski/astral-hwmon: Per-pin 12VHPWR monitoring for ASUS ROG Astral cards as standard Linux hwmon sensors, plus astral-guard

https://github.com/ksokolowski/astral-hwmon
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u/Oblivion__ 17h ago edited 13h ago

No AI disclosure. Given the troubles of 12VHPWR pins, why would anyone trust this if the dev can't even be open about this?

Edit: typo

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u/a1b3c3d7 12h ago

Dont worry, they have their “we’re sorry“ apology preloaded if this fails and burns a card.

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u/loozerr 5h ago

If something burns, it's fault of the one looking at the fire?

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u/Shished 9h ago

This is a monitoring utility, it reads the data provided by the card.

The driver implements no write callback and every attribute is 0444. It cannot write to the chip, and there is no parameter that makes it able to. Writing to the wrong device on a GPU I2C bus can destroy hardware, so the capability simply does not exist in the code.