From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Mathew Brown" Subject: Re: Preventing ACPI from Damaging Your CPU Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:51:13 -0700 Message-ID: <1160671873.29653.273188134@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1160663160.13196.273175261@webmail.messagingengine.com> <200610121646.19668.rjw@sisk.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:63709 "EHLO out1.smtp.messagingengine.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932689AbWJLQvM (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:51:12 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200610121646.19668.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org 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" 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 > > > -- > You never change things by fighting the existing reality. > R. Buckminster Fuller -- Mathew Brown mathewbrown@fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A fast, anti-spam email service.