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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>,
	Roger Leigh <rleigh@whinlatter.ukfsn.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Dennis Munsie <dmunsie@cecropia.com>
Subject: Re: radeonfb i2c regression post-2.6.18.
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 09:25:35 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1195943135.7195.61.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071124232035.0f46d530@hyperion.delvare>


> Very strange indeed. Another possibility is that there is a hardware
> monitoring chip connected to one of the Radeon adapter's I2C buses, and
> that holding the I2C lines prevents reading from it, so whatever is
> responsible for controlling the temperature prefers to play it safe and
> shuts everything down. Somehow it seems more realistic than an actual
> overheating (3 seconds is a very short period of time for that), but
> we'd need the exact schematics of the hardware, and the details of the
> thermal control system, to validate this theory.
> 
> Anyway, no need to worry anymore now that the bug is fixed :)

Actually, that's a possibility yes, though generally Apple put all temp.
monitoring chips elsewhere, it could well be the case.

Ben.



  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-24 22:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-18 23:16 radeonfb i2c regression post-2.6.18 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-11-21  9:42 ` Roger Leigh
2007-11-21 19:58   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-11-21 20:13     ` Michael Buesch
2007-11-21 20:17       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-11-21 23:56     ` Roger Leigh
2007-11-22  0:00       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-11-23 16:00 ` Michael Buesch
2007-11-23 22:29   ` Jean Delvare
2007-11-24  1:11     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-11-24  9:29       ` Jean Delvare
2007-11-24 14:18     ` Michael Buesch
2007-11-24 22:20       ` Jean Delvare
2007-11-24 22:25         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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2007-11-18 21:58 Roger Leigh

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