From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200101290141.RAA21010@mail.turbolinux.com> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 01:49:14 -0000 To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: pmud monitoring temperature (Re: powerbook doubles) From: Brad Midgley Cc: djosg@mgu.bath.ac.uk Reply-To: brad@turbolinux.com Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: hi, > > yes, it can. > > Someone posted a patch some time last year to get the info into the /proc > > entry. If that no longer applies it shouldn't be too difficult to update > > it. i reworked this patch to work with the current bk tree (argh. i just complained to iain that diffs against a moving target were gross) http://redcloud.uccs.edu/~bcmidgle/linux/ btw, it looks like troy wants the _{gs}et_THRM{123} macros changed to use some different macros, but i'm not familiar with that stuff so i just reenabled the old macros. > until we have proper heat control in the kernel, maybe pmud should monitor the temperature and put > the machine to sleep if it runs too hot. i'm looking into this part. btw, what is a dangerous temperature? with the bays empty and a housefan running nearby (ie relatively cool) it is reporting 42c. -- Brad brad@turbolinux.com http://www.turbolinux.com/~brad/ ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/