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Date:      Sun, 04 Apr 2010 10:20:46 -0700
From:      Dana Myers <dana.myers@gmail.com>
To:        Bartosz Fabianowski <freebsd@chillt.de>
Cc:        freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Spurious thermal shutdowns on Dell Studio 1557
Message-ID:  <4BB8CA6E.9010503@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4BB8BFBC.4030900@chillt.de>
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On 4/4/2010 9:35 AM, Bartosz Fabianowski wrote:
> If the CPU really cannot run at maximal speed for more than a few 
> minutes, I would be a bit disappointed.

It's in a notebook, afterall.  There's not a lot of room for optimal 
thermal design
in there.

> Still, I guess I could accept it. What I cannot accept is a silly 
> setup where instead of throttling the CPU as appropriate, the machine 
> shuts down.

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.

Dana





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