For those currently owning an ASUS ROG MAXIMUS X HERO or ASUS Pro WS TRX50-SAGE WIFI A motherboard, Linux sensor monitoring support will be in place for the next kernel release.

The ROG MAXIMUS X HERO and Pro WS TRX50-SAGE WIFI A are the latest ASUS motherboards seeing hardware monitoring "HWMON" support exposed under Linux. The motherboard support is being added to the ASUS-EC-Sensors upstream open-source driver. Patches for the support have been queued to "hwmon-next" and thus these motherboards will be supported with the next kernel cycle, which depending upon how it plays out will either be called Linux 6.20 or Linux 7.0. As with other ASUS-EC-Sensors driver work, the new product support wasn't sadly carried out by ASUS engineers but rather the open-source community.

[1]This patch adds support for the ROG MAXIMUS X HERO motherboard for exposing the motherboard temperature sensors, VRM temperature, and CPU optional fan speed. The ROG MAXIMUS X HERO is a motherboard for aging 8th / 9th Gen 14nm Intel CPUs on Socket 1151.

The ASUS Pro WS TRX50-SAGE WIFI A is a Threadripper 7000/9000 series motherboard. It's a wonderful motherboard and in fact I have two of them as review samples that have been used for most of my AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000/9000 series Linux benchmarking. [2]This patch for the next Linux kernel gets all of the ASUS EC sensor functionality in order.

There still are a few weeks to go before the Linux 6.20~7.0 merge window kicks off so we'll see if any other desktop/workstation motherboards catch-up in their Linux sensor monitoring support before that point.



[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging.git/commit/?h=hwmon-next&id=0980faa6ea2b8b92248a964ae976644dd61aa19d

[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging.git/commit/?h=hwmon-next&id=fb43fdb70d3566c3614db0be8c9676c00ec8ddbb