Re: 2.6.22 regression: thermal trip points

[Adrian Schröter <adrian@suse.de>]

On Thursday 02 August 2007 11:42:27 wrote Thomas Renninger:
> On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 10:40 +0200, Knut Petersen wrote:
> > Hi everybody!
> >
> > Kernel 2.6.22 decreases performance by about 50% on my system.
> > No, I do not like that. The reason is a broken BIOS, granted, but there
> > was a perfect workaround in the kernel that has been dropped.
> >
> > mainboard: AOpen i915GMm-hfs, AWARD BIOS
> > cpu: Pentium-M 750 (0.8 to 1.86 MHz)
> > openSuSE 10.2 with kernel 2.6.22.1
>
> Is this a DELL laptop that gets throttled by 75% to throttling state 6
> if 60 degrees are exceeded?
> Adrian has such a machine..., no idea what is going on with that one,
> but only workaround to get any use out of this machine is to override at
> least the passive trip point.

JFYI, there are plenty of these systems around, it was one out of four 
standard Novell modells. I am mabye just the first one who uses Factory on 
it, but expect more bugreports when 10.3 gets released ...

bye
adrian

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Adrian Schroeter
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
email: adrian@suse.de

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