Thermal reporting driver for providing active cooling in pre and post boot environments

A non-transitory machine-readable medium having instructions stored therein, which when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations for providing active cooling using a fan controlled by an embedded controller in a data processing system having components from a thermal architecture that is only capable of providing passive cooling through throttling of a motherboard of the data processing system, the operations comprising:

• obtaining, by a first thermal driver of the data processing system, system temperature of the data processing system, the first thermal driver being incapable of communicating with the embedded controller;
• obtaining, by a second thermal driver of the data processing system, the system temperature from the first thermal driver;
• providing, by the second thermal driver, the system temperature to the embedded controller via an inter-integrated circuit (I2C)/improved inter-integrated circuit (I3C) interface;
• and
• providing, by the embedded controller, active cooling for the data processing system by controlling the fan based on the system temperature, the embedded controller being incapable of obtaining the system temperature without aid from the second thermal driver.

A data processing system having components from a thermal architecture that is only capable of providing passive cooling through throttling of a motherboard of the data processing system comprising:

• a fan;
• an embedded controller configured to provide active cooling for the data processing system using the fan;
• a processor installed on the motherboard;
• and
• a memory coupled to the processor, the memory storing instructions that, when executed by the data processing system, causes the data processing system to provide the active cooling using the fan and the embedded controller, the operations comprising:
• obtaining, by a first thermal driver of the data processing system, system temperature of the data processing system, the first thermal driver being incapable of communicating with the embedded controller;
• obtaining, by a second thermal driver of the data processing system, the system temperature from the first thermal driver;
• providing, by the second thermal driver, the system temperature to the embedded controller via an inter-integrated circuit (I2C)/improved inter-integrated circuit (I3C) interface;
• and providing, by the embedded controller, active cooling for the data processing system by controlling the fan based on the system temperature, the embedded controller being incapable of obtaining the system temperature without aid from the second thermal driver.