Re: Changing temperature trip points

Dominik Brodowski
2002-11-03T22:18:46Z

Hi!

On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 11:11:43PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > My point is more that it might be better to assume that things won't
> > work. This isn't a sound driver. This is something that the life of
> > the computer depends on, and if somebody's processor melts down because
> > they didn't read some piece of kernel documentation that they didn't
> > even know existed, they're not likely to be particularly forgiving and
> > think "Oh, it was my fault for not realising that my hardware was
> > broken, I'll be more careful next time".
>
> No. Worst that can happen is that your machine powers off. And thats
> after machine already has at least one hardware bug.

Actually, I doubt that it will power off. Assume your BIOS vendor set
critical to 110°C (my vendor did so). And the CPU burns through at 70°C.
Let's assume no thermal management objects like fans exist. Without custom
polling, a trip point of 65°C for critical has no, really no effect. The
CPU melts down. Or am I missing something?

Dominik