From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Malte Thoma Subject: Re: heatload 0.4 now with throttling support Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 18:22:16 +0100 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <3E00AEC8.9050906@muenster.de> References: <3E008120.5080908@uni-muenster.de> <20021218153355.GK347@poup.poupinou.org> <3E009EB5.7010109@muenster.de> <20021218170828.GA9127@clara.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20021218170828.GA9127-6JSjyQ0Qj1ReoWH0uzbU5w@public.gmane.org> Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Faye Pearson Cc: Ducrot Bruno , ACPI-Devel List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Faye Pearson wrote: >Malte Thoma [thoma-iYtK5bfT9M8b1SvskN2V4Q@public.gmane.org] wrote: > > >>cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0 >> >>... it seems to me that there are a LOT of different >>proc/acpi-structures :-( >> >>/proc/acpi/thermal/0/status >>/proc/acpi/thermal_zone >>/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature >>/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0 >> >> > >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. > > In which directory, in /proc/acpi or in ../thermal_zone ? >>hope that the ACPI-group stabilize this ;-) >> >> > >They can't do anything about it. > > 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?) >> >> > >No, there could be a passive zone, a critical zone etc. > > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Order your Holiday Geek Presents Now! Green Lasers, Hip Geek T-Shirts, Remote Control Tanks, Caffeinated Soap, MP3 Players, XBox Games, Flying Saucers, WebCams, Smart Putty. T H I N K G E E K . C O M http://www.thinkgeek.com/sf/