From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 5 03:17:08 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 CEC891065696 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 03:17:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dana.myers@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f171.google.com (mail-yw0-f171.google.com [209.85.211.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 742A28FC0A for ; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 03:17:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh1 with SMTP id 1so2156791ywh.3 for ; Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:17:07 -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=7Eqb3tmtaJdsx9uq9OOXHNgUmyoh/kS11Z8SBBIWxx8=; b=mkkiZYipgay7W+mN33BDA3zhyRViQXa0pWDFYZj7WcopS4e2Dgr05RBziBMM+Nxu2m JdmTXvlSOZDtC/6AT9LSGpdwhE3ugVzU0Ht6m9WysVM2iCAWJL/JDNgSOY7vW9wgGsr1 oIwY/iz8NSRQyvXJL5plFgmKLSze+GlS+DQ74= 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=HchWxQFc9ppSrbyaI3VFkTHykrOL7QJjPqA1F9YifxyfqxcvXHNo2gESTfykrhKaUW VNYYZ9z5JSvOYLO8BoUGR6M4Srxjq/Ub2w6ysyBuhDquTHaSM4GfsZZzD4K4ud2JG9+D hQnjw39x1cMOHf7xF8ddwmyO9D8V1FMq84IX0= Received: by 10.150.14.5 with SMTP id 5mr5918480ybn.17.1270437427506; Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:17:07 -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 6sm3170443ywd.53.2010.04.04.20.17.05 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:17:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4BB9562A.3080902@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:16:58 -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> <4BB8CA6E.9010503@gmail.com> <4BB94BD6.5030804@chillt.de> In-Reply-To: <4BB94BD6.5030804@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: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 03:17:08 -0000 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