On Friday 03 August 2007 08:53, Knut Petersen wrote: > Len Brown : > > > > > > Thanks for the sighting, Knut! > > This regression is dramatic when put in the terms of 50% performance hit! > > I guess the good news is that thermal throttling is doing the job > > we are asking it to:-) > > > > > > > Thermal management by cpufreq is working really fine ;-) Unfortunately, I a lot of people don't understand that the ";-)" after this statement and they really think that cpufreq is a solution for thermal management. It isn't. Systems still need to be thermally sane when they are fully utilized and cpufreq helps not. > My problems are definitely not related to a linux bug. All trip_points > are fixed, hardcoded in the system BIOS at address 0x000FF810. > > Yes, I could hack and flash a custom BIOS. > > After reading a lot I think I even could fix the DSDT. No, you should never have to override your BIOS -- except for debugging. If Windows works out-of-the-box on this system, then Linux should too - even if we have to use a DMI-based workaround for a BIOS bug. I'm looking forward to seeing the bug report that you are going to file. Please include the dmidecode output in addition to the acpidump output. thanks, -Len - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
