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Feature Request: motherboard/AGESA sensor #62

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@emansom

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It'll soon? be possible to read the AGESA version from either dmesg (and maybe sysfs?), would be useful to expose this somehow and show in the dashboard.

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-AGESA-Version-Linux-7.1

until now there hasn't been a convenient way of finding out your AGESA version under Linux unless rebooting into your 
system BIOS/UEFI screen or parsing the BIOS version and seeing if your motherboard vendor's release notes for BIOS 
updates make mention of the AGESA version/update. AGESA updates can be useful for new performance optimizations, 
expanding system memory compatibility, CPU security features, new CPU support, etc.

Finally with Linux 7.1, the AGESA version when detected will be printed to the kernel log. Thus with the Linux kernel 
moving forward on AMD Zen systems it can be a simple matter of grep'ing the kernel log, e.g. sudo dmesg | grep AGESA 
for quickly and easily determining your AGESA version under Linux.

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