The hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates for Linux 6.12 added some new drivers as well as adding new device support to some of the existing drivers.

One of the new HWMON drivers in Linux 6.12 is for supporting the Sophgo SG2042 external hardware monitoring. The SG2042 as a reminder is a 64 RISC-V CPU core SoC clocking up to 2.0GHz and having a 120 Watt TDP and handling quad channel DDR4-3200. It's a very interesting RISC-V SoC and [1]found in the likes of the Milk-V Pioneer . Sadly I still haven't received any review hardware for this 64-core RISC-V platform.

The SG2042-MCU driver enables temperature monitoring, SoC reset count, reset reason reporting, and other MCU information to be reported via the HWMON sysfs.

Another new driver in HWMON is the Microsoft Surface Sensor Thermal Driver for the Microsoft Surface Aggregator Module.

The OXP-Sensors driver for supporting hardware monitoring on various OneXPlayer gaming handheld devices has also seen new hardware added. Among the new hardware support in the oxp-sensors driver is for the AYANEO Flip, AYANEO Geek 1S, Ayaneo KUN, OneXPlayer 2, OneXPlayer 2 Pro, OneXPlayer OneXFly, OneXPlayer X1 A, OneXPlayer X1 i, and OneXPlayer X1 mini.

More details in [2]this Git merge for the Linux 6.12 HWMON changes.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Milk-V-Pioneer-Linux-Patches

[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c27ea952c614779db84bc2326e686ba7cc1c865c