Home of the kernel's thermal management framework, which coordinates temperature monitoring, trip points, governors, and cooling actions like CPU throttling or fan control. Individual hardware-specific thermal drivers from Intel, AMD, and various ARM SoC vendors plug into this framework rather than this directory binding to any single chip.
This is not actually a single driver directory; it is the umbrella for the kernel's thermal management framework, which provides the shared infrastructure for temperature sensors, cooling devices, throttling policies, and the many per-vendor thermal drivers that live in subdirectories underneath it.
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Not a driver directory: top-level thermal subsystem containing framework code and multiple thermal/cooling drivers, not a single kernel-bound hardware driver.