Re: Changing temperature trip points

Pavel Machek
2002-11-03T22:22:22Z

Hi!

> > > 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?

Yes, you are missing reality.

Try stopping your fan and see what happens. I believe you'll see your
notebook powering off itself at <90C, low enough to keep cpu alive.

Pavel
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