Hi,
[whoa, maybe I shouldn't have used such an inflammatory subject,
the mail volume would suggest that ;-)]
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 06:43:12PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 12:16:55AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > > Am I completely missing something here?
> >
> > Yes. You are missing that modern hw already protects itself. See my blog on planet.kernel.org.
>
> And you are missing that not everyone is running linux on the latest CPUs.
Darn right. Intel has been having thermal protection for a somewhat longer
time, but Athlon had serious issues with missing or incompletely functioning
thermal sensors on many not too outdated (let's say it was 4 years ago, ok?)
motherboard/CPU combos.
And I don't really want to know about thermal protection status of various
Cyrix, VIA or even Winchip CPUs (you've been a nic^H^Hïve believer of
competition in a healthy marketplace and bought some of those, right?
I know I did... ;).
But since Pavel's blog mentions that thermal protection is an ACPI
specification, there's hope that it may actually work half-decently
after all.
Andreas Mohr
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