From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: Probably wrong temparature for thermal zone on HP DL380 G7 server Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 16:04:33 +0100 Message-ID: <20110404150433.GA19455@srcf.ucam.org> References: <4D99F1D8020000A100005903@gwsmtp1.uni-regensburg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:40133 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754601Ab1DDPEi (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Apr 2011 11:04:38 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D99F1D8020000A100005903@gwsmtp1.uni-regensburg.de> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Ulrich Windl Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 04:29:12PM +0200, Ulrich Windl wrote: > No support for device type: battery > Thermal 1: ok, 8.0 degrees C > No support for device type: ac_adapter >>From the DSDT on a DL580 G7: Scope (_TZ) { Name (\TEMP, 0x0AFF) ... Method (_TMP, 0, NotSerialized) { Store ("_TMP Method", Debug) Return (TEMP) } And there's nothing else that touches TEMP (there's a different TEMP in the CPU setup tables, but they're in different namespaces). So _TMP always returns 0x0AFF, which is 2815, which is 281.5 kelvin, which is 8.3 degrees C. Looks like a BIOS bug. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org