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From: Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: ACPI mailing list <acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Tell user when ACPI is killing machine
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 14:01:40 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031128220140.GB1714@vitelus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031128145558.GA576@elf.ucw.cz>

On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 03:55:58PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On critical overheat (or perceived critical overheat -- acpi bioses on
> some notebooks apparently report bogus values from time to time),
> kernel itself calls /sbin/halt *without telling anything*. User can
> not see anything, his machine just shuts down cleanly. Bad.

Sorry if this is a bit OT, but why doesn't ACPI scale the CPU
frequency back instead of shutting down? This is what APM does on my
laptop (presumably in the BIOS) but when I enable ACPI the machine
shuts down whenever I do something CPU intensive (yes; it's a poorly
designed laptop). I have cpufreq support (cpufreq: P4/Xeon(TM) CPU
On-Demand Clock Modulation available). Has this kind of thing been
added since I last tried it, or do I actually have to actively set up
cpufreq in user space to get thermally-induced clock modulation? Or is
not even possible with the current state of things?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-11-28 22:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-28 14:55 Tell user when ACPI is killing machine Pavel Machek
     [not found] ` <20031128145558.GA576-I/5MKhXcvmPrBKCeMvbIDA@public.gmane.org>
2003-11-28 16:52   ` Pavel Machek
2003-11-28 22:01 ` Aaron Lehmann [this message]
2003-11-28 23:43   ` Pavel Machek
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-04  5:27 Yu, Luming
     [not found] ` <3ACA40606221794F80A5670F0AF15F8401720BFD-4yWAQGcml64gGBtAFL8yw7fspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2003-12-04  9:54   ` Pavel Machek
2003-12-04 10:01     ` Damien Sandras
2003-12-04 10:56       ` Pavel Machek
2003-12-04 11:24         ` Måns Rullgård
2003-12-08  3:26 Yu, Luming
     [not found] ` <3ACA40606221794F80A5670F0AF15F8401720C05-SRlDPOYGfgogGBtAFL8yw7fspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2003-12-09 11:25   ` Pavel Machek

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