Re: Changing temperature trip points

Hi!

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My point is more that it might be better to assume that things won't
work.  This isn't a sound driver.  This is something that the life of
the computer depends on, and if somebody's processor melts down because
they didn't read some piece of kernel documentation that they didn't
even know existed, they're not likely to be particularly forgiving and
think "Oh, it was my fault for not realising that my hardware was
broken, I'll be more careful next time".

No. Worst that can happen is that your machine powers off. And thats
after machine already has at least one hardware bug.

Actually, I doubt that it will power off. Assume your BIOS vendor set
critical to 110°C (my vendor did so). And the CPU burns through at 70°C.
Let's assume no thermal management objects like fans exist. Without custom
polling, a trip point of 65°C for critical has no, really no effect. The
CPU melts down. Or am I missing something?

Yes, you are missing reality.

Try stopping your fan and see what happens. I believe you'll see your
notebook powering off itself at <90C, low enough to keep cpu alive.

									Pavel
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