Re: Overheating is *not* dangerous Re: Changing temperature trip points

Dominik Brodowski
2002-11-03T22:30:54Z

On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 11:19:45PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > Actually, Documentation/acpi/processor.txt seems like right
> > > place. "Polling" warning should be in Documentation/, really.
> >
> > Which does not exist ==> extremely dangerous situation. Even though you
> > should know what you're doing when you meddle with the affairs of kernels,
> > kernels should try at least to some extent to be safe to use.
>
> So perhaps its good time to create Documentation/acpi? ;-).
>
> Anyway it is not *dangerous* situation. ACPI machines power down on
> overtemp.
ACPI machines power down on overtemp. What is overtemp? The temperature
specified in CRITICAL in the DSDT. And if this value is wrong, then you need
to rely on the sanity of BIOS programmers. And a log of good luck.

Dominik