Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:16:58 -0700 From: Dana Myers <dana.myers@gmail.com> To: Bartosz Fabianowski <freebsd@chillt.de> Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spurious thermal shutdowns on Dell Studio 1557 Message-ID: <4BB9562A.3080902@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4BB94BD6.5030804@chillt.de> 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> <4BB8CA6E.9010503@gmail.com> <4BB94BD6.5030804@chillt.de>
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On 4/4/2010 7:32 PM, Bartosz Fabianowski wrote: >> 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. > > There seems to be plenty of support for throttling. But if the BIOS > provides bogus _PSV and _CRT values, there is only that much FreeBSD > can do. That is how the thread started, with the question: "How come > _PSV > _CRT on my machine and what should I do about it?" My apologies. Indeed, a lying BIOS is hard to deal with, especially when the system really depends on the BIOS to keep things sane (as in this case). Dana
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