Re: Preventing ACPI from Damaging Your CPU

["Mathew Brown" <mathewbrown@fastmail.fm>]

Thanks for your reply Rafael.  However, I was looking for a generic
solution.  I don't have an nx6325 but was thinking of purchasing a
laptop and was afraid that ACPI could damage / overheat by CPUs.  I
think the link you provided is specific to the nx6325 unless I'm
mistaken.  Is there any generic solution?  Would recompiling the DSDT
and re-inserting it guarantee that no overheat / damage happens
regardless of the laptop / machine?  Thanks.


On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:46:19 +0200, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
said:
> On Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:26, Mathew Brown wrote:
> > Hi,
> >   I've been reading an alarming article on getting Gentoo to work on the
> >   HP Compaq nx6325
> >   (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Gentoo_on_HP_Compaq_nx6325) and the
> >   serious ACPI problems that were encountered.  The author states after
> >   mentioning how to apply certain patches, "Without that, the CPU might
> >   overheat and get damaged during heavy load (such as compiling a Gentoo
> >   stage ...)!"
> > 
> >   What would be the safest way to ensure that ACPI doesn't do this to
> >   your machine / laptop without disabling ACPI?  Would recompiling the
> >   DSDT using the Intel compiler and re-inserting it be enough to ensure
> >   that ACPI doesn't cause your CPU to overheat or get damaged?  Thanks
> >   for your help.
> 
> Please see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7122, especially
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7122#c27 and below.
> 
> Greetings,
> Rafael
> 
> 
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