On Wed, 14 May 2008, Len Brown wrote: > But the cost is that others with actual working hardware > unnwittingly run p4-clockmod and slow down their machine with > no energy savings benefit. Well, there ARE ways to make sure p4-clockmod is only used as a last ressort, and we CAN make sure the user will be told it is using a last ressort measure that does not save energy. Major nasty printks come to mind. p4-clockmod has saved my bacon on an Intel D875PBZ motherboard whose processor was overheating, as well (older kernel, though. That box runs 2.6.16.y). I can't check right now if that motherboard has proper ACPI thermal zones that would do the same in a new kernel without p4-clockmod, but I will do so when I have the chance. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- 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
