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Re: [PATCH 1/2] wifi: rtw89: add thermal protection

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Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> To prevent chip overheating, reduce TX duty as the mechanism of thermal
> protection. When temperature is raising over a threshold, send a firmware
> command to reduce TX duty. If temperature is still raising, higher level
> is adopted to have lower active duration.
> 
> The equation and unit of thermal values are different from chip to chip,
> so define constant thresholds of thermal value to corresponding absolute
> temperature of 110 and 120 degree Celsius.
> 
> Latter patch will decide which thermal threshold is adopted, and current
> is still not enable thermal protection.
> 
> For debugging, add a flag to disable_dm that thermal protection can be
> disabled to clarify low throughput in field.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@xxxxxxxxxxx>

2 patch(es) applied to rtw-next branch of rtw.git, thanks.

63aca1726213 wifi: rtw89: add thermal protection
9ef90a49b0db wifi: rtw89: pci: add quirks by PCI subsystem ID for thermal protection

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https://github.com/pkshih/rtw.git





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