From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 14:08:36 +0200 From: Sven LUTHER To: Michael Schmitz Cc: Albrecht Dreß , Tim Wojtulewicz , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Pismo status Message-ID: <20000517140836.A12638@lambda.u-strasbg.fr> Reply-To: luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr References: <39226066.BF822A70@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from schmitz@opal.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de on Wed, May 17, 2000 at 12:54:22PM +0200 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 12:54:22PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > Tim Wojtulewicz wrote: > > > No it's definitely supposed to have a fan. It comes on in MacOS. > > > The problem is that the PMU is not fully supported yet, so it doesn't > > > understand that the processor is too hot. I'm trying to find > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Does this mean that I can damage the machine if I just run a high-load > > program?!? > > I strongly doubt that. The PMU should handle this autonomously, regardless > of Linux support for the PMU. Also, i think the ppc cpu will halt itself when becoming too hot, and not let itself burn. At elast it was so since the earlier 680x0 cpus. Friendly, Sven LUTHER ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/