From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dominik Brodowski Subject: Re: Changing temperature trip points Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 23:18:46 +0100 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <20021103231846.D19750@brodo.de> References: <20021103220251.GC28704@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <000301c28385$b68eb510$c200a8c0@pikachu> <20021103221143.GF28704@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021103221143.GF28704-jyMamyUUXNJG4ohzP4jBZS1Fcj925eT/@public.gmane.org>; from pavel-+ZI9xUNit7I@public.gmane.org on Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 11:11:43PM +0100 Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Pavel Machek Cc: Edmund Rhudy , acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org 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 becau= se > > they didn't read some piece of kernel documentation that they didn't > > even know existed, they're not likely to be particularly forgiving an= d > > think "Oh, it was my fault for not realising that my hardware was > > broken, I'll be more careful next time". >=20 > 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=B0C (my vendor did so). And the CPU burns through at 70=B0= C. Let's assume no thermal management objects like fans exist. Without custo= m polling, a trip point of 65=B0C for critical has no, really no effect. Th= e CPU melts down. Or am I missing something? Dominik ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ApacheCon, November 18-21 in Las Vegas (supported by COMDEX), the only Apache event to be fully supported by the ASF. http://www.apachecon.com