From: Tomasz Torcz <zdzichu@irc.pl>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>,
"Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Strange entries in /proc/acpi/thermal_zone for Thinkpad X60
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:10:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061013181030.GA11662@irc.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <452F15DC.8080701@goop.org>
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On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 09:28:12PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Robert Hancock wrote:
> >I would expect they wouldn't, otherwise there would be no reason for
> >the BIOS people to set up two thermal zones..
>
> Ah, OK. I misunderstood what thermal zones are.
>
> >How do you know they are one for each core? ACPI thermal zones can be
> >anywhere in the machine that needs OS-controlled cooling. Could be the
> >CPU heatsink, voltage regulator, or someplace else.
>
> Right, bad assumption on my part. Is there any way to find out what
> they might correspond to? /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal has a bunch of
> temperature-like numbers in them; I guess there should be some
> correlation between those and the thermal zones.
There are many temperature sensors in Thinkpads. There's even map of
them somewhere on http://www.thinkwiki.org.
--
Tomasz Torcz "Funeral in the morning, IDE hacking
zdzichu@irc.-nie.spam-.pl in the afternoon and evening." - Alan Cox
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2006-10-13 3:57 ` Strange entries in /proc/acpi/thermal_zone for Thinkpad X60 Robert Hancock
2006-10-13 4:28 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-10-13 18:10 ` Tomasz Torcz [this message]
2006-10-12 22:19 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-10-12 22:19 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-10-13 4:53 ` Len Brown
2006-10-13 14:44 ` Pavel Machek
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