Re: heatload 0.4 now with throttling support

[Malte Thoma <thoma-iYtK5bfT9M8b1SvskN2V4Q@public.gmane.org>]

Faye Pearson wrote:

>Malte Thoma [thoma-iYtK5bfT9M8b1SvskN2V4Q@public.gmane.org] wrote:
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>>cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0
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>>... it seems to me that there are a LOT of different 
>>proc/acpi-structures :-(
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>>/proc/acpi/thermal/0/status
>>/proc/acpi/thermal_zone
>>/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature
>>/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0
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>As with most ACPI things, the name of the thermal_zone is defined by the
>DSDT table, and is arbitrary.  You should read everything in the
>directory.
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In which directory, in /proc/acpi or in ../thermal_zone ?

>>hope that the ACPI-group stabilize this ;-)
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>They can't do anything about it.
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Thank you for this importent and disillusioned information :-(

>>until now heatload workes only for one CPU (i suppose the thermal_zone 
>>is coherent to the counting of CPUs?)
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>No, there could be a passive zone, a critical zone etc.
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Wonderfull task: something to develope for machines I cannot test it for :-(
coming along that my skills are not guru-like :-(

So what can you advise me?

parsing /proc/acpi and looking for


processor ->throttling
thermal*  -> ????
battery -> state or status
ac_adapter   -> state or status

excpecially in the thermal zone it looks as if ther is no regularity :-(
Do you have some more hints ?


Greetings,

Malte








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