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      Linux Dealing With Apple's Wild Mess Of Sensors On Apple Silicon SoCs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 July 2026

    While there has been the Apple System Management Controller "SMC" hardware monitoring driver with the intent on exposing battery/power stats as well as thermal and more for Apple Silicon SoCs on Linux, it hasn't yet been working out properly on the mainline kernel. Between missing Device Tree nodes to the hodgepodge mess of sensors between the different Apple M-Series SoCs, it's a mess...