Re: ACPI Thermal Shutdown on Boot

[Pavel Machek <pavel-AlSwsSmVLrQ@public.gmane.org>]

Hi!

> > > If I understand you correctly, 30 seconds is certainly 
> > enough time to burn
> > > a CPU when the fan has failed, isn't it?
> > 
> > Our old default poll interval was 30 seconds so this doesn't change
> > anything.  I know DeadRat takes more than 30 seconds from "shutdown -h
> > now" to power off.  All modern CPUs have a thermal shutdown builtin.
> > Think of _CRT as more of "system temp too high, shut down as 
> > soon as you
> > can."
> 
>   If I didn't miss something,  Chris Jensen was unable to adjust
> critical trip point due
> to current policy. Anyway, 57C isn't a real critical temperature. It
> doesn't make sense to
> enter emergent shutdown/power.So we need sane checking here.( A sane
> _CRT ?)
>   If FAN is broken, at least we can use throttling to guarantee it will
> not be over heated.
> So, throttling should be included into policy about handling critical
> trip point.

At critical trip point, we have to shut down, according
to specs. No choice here.

If their ACPI BIOS is b0rken, blacklist them.
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