Jim Cornette wrote:
> I hope that other acpi items are not effected as well. I would hate for
> thermal runaway to kill the box because of other broken items within acpi.
AFAIK the mechanisms that throttle or power down processors when they
get too hot are *not* dependent on ACPI.
This is precisely because processors will be expected to run without
ACPI, but there is never going to be a situation where you *want* your
processor to burn out [1]. So the mechanisms are supposed to Just Work,
without software support.
James.
[1] Unless Tom's Hardware want to make another video...
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