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Once upon a time, I was browsing http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/ page, and came across a proposal to port OpenBSD's hw.sensors framework, which I've co-authored, to FreeBSD. Being a student and having some free time this summer, at that point I knew what I had to do. (:

As a part of this project, I am planning to port sysctl hw.sensors framework and related utilities from OpenBSD to FreeBSD. Apart from the framework itself, I plan to port lm(4) and it(4), and provide patches to FreeBSD's internal drivers that have temperature sensors, e.g. dev/iicbus/ad7418.c. When the work will be completed, users will be able to access temperature and other sensors in a unified fashion from sysctl, systat, sensorsd and ports/sysutils/symon.