On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 09:28:12PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Robert Hancock wrote: > >I would expect they wouldn't, otherwise there would be no reason for > >the BIOS people to set up two thermal zones.. > > Ah, OK. I misunderstood what thermal zones are. > > >How do you know they are one for each core? ACPI thermal zones can be > >anywhere in the machine that needs OS-controlled cooling. Could be the > >CPU heatsink, voltage regulator, or someplace else. > > Right, bad assumption on my part. Is there any way to find out what > they might correspond to? /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal has a bunch of > temperature-like numbers in them; I guess there should be some > correlation between those and the thermal zones. There are many temperature sensors in Thinkpads. There's even map of them somewhere on http://www.thinkwiki.org. -- Tomasz Torcz "Funeral in the morning, IDE hacking [email protected] in the afternoon and evening." - Alan Cox
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