From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 4 17:20:53 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB3A41065674 for ; Sun, 4 Apr 2010 17:20:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dana.myers@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f211.google.com (mail-gx0-f211.google.com [209.85.217.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C57C8FC1F for ; Sun, 4 Apr 2010 17:20:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk3 with SMTP id 3so2832585gxk.13 for ; Sun, 04 Apr 2010 10:20:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=YaU2w3lOYk4YB5EbYCtbdHE5saXlcTQtJTHMfP9RKKw=; b=aUOX58AYrbf/905LlcbaZf0pEsJc90vvME/8vzZ40RbO2XLfWm8Q2lp3fBYAYMf7vq sscjLoIyhbbkNuDyD/sS8vY1PnLjoqQaOmArAUDZEdWZYC7FHjaBmJ8L+9kz5wOfAVSQ D1Jider9ggBbcN3VzU17Puc4O9s6IyDRt81gg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=JibAh/8jrJW/SQghIv7yfU9zK/WAyyMvtZtCXyhTTN8BGxSYkxlLAXQAmEHtkvNkFr 6K1c+y93Rib6uU4RWvCpxVQVhqqNGymamZprUXmwjUgBToYQPROGjZ8d3Qy8A57E1LBP WC1zmIDI8c6CfzPhJUujaNsNaxIl5GyWseYaA= Received: by 10.150.48.2 with SMTP id v2mr5406046ybv.348.1270401652859; Sun, 04 Apr 2010 10:20:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.100] (c-76-103-215-220.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [76.103.215.220]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 36sm2720864yxh.14.2010.04.04.10.20.51 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 04 Apr 2010 10:20:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4BB8CA6E.9010503@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 10:20:46 -0700 From: Dana Myers User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bartosz Fabianowski References: <4BB69279.6060005@chillt.de> <20100403152134.V35463@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <4BB74BC4.9070409@chillt.de> <20100404012906.I35463@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <1270308642.1455.10.camel@RabbitsDen> <4BB764CC.60500@chillt.de> <1270334546.1455.45.camel@RabbitsDen> <4BB7C937.9050106@chillt.de> <1270337076.1455.60.camel@RabbitsDen> <4BB7D71C.7080303@chillt.de> <1270341153.1455.81.camel@RabbitsDen> <4BB8B603.60902@chillt.de> <4BB8BED1.1090004@gmail.com> <4BB8BFBC.4030900@chillt.de> In-Reply-To: <4BB8BFBC.4030900@chillt.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spurious thermal shutdowns on Dell Studio 1557 X-BeenThere: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: ACPI and power management development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:20:54 -0000 On 4/4/2010 9:35 AM, Bartosz Fabianowski wrote: > If the CPU really cannot run at maximal speed for more than a few > minutes, I would be a bit disappointed. It's in a notebook, afterall. There's not a lot of room for optimal thermal design in there. > Still, I guess I could accept it. What I cannot accept is a silly > setup where instead of throttling the CPU as appropriate, the machine > shuts down. Agreed. I came into this thread late and admit I'm not sure what support for CPU throttling is in FreeBSD. Ideally, Notify() events on the CPU objects will cause dynamic re-evaluation of the associated _PPC object. Dana