Hi:
* Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org> [2007-10-16 14:19:20 -0700]:
> From: Ren? Rebe <rene at exactcode.de>
>
> At least the 2x Quad-Core Apple Mac Pro appears to have some over-heat
> protection which suddenly powers off the whole box under load. This adds
> support for the fans and temerature sensors in the Mac Pro - later some
> "windwarm" a-like code should probably monitor the values. For now
> manually tweaking the fans prevents the sudden shutdown for me.
>
> cd /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768
> for x in fan{1,2,3,4}; do
> echo 1 > ${x}_manual
> echo 1285 > ${x}_output
> done
>
Ren?: there is a series of patches for the f75375s hwmon driver that allow fans
to be initialized with platform data. Although I haven't reviewed the series
in detail yet, IMO the concept looks OK and it may be appropriate for the Macs
also.
http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2007-October/021597.html
http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2007-October/021598.html
http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2007-October/021599.html
> Two sensors are 0, while four are 129 ?C, those might be removed again,
> later.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ren? Rebe <rene at exactcode.de>
> Cc: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman at lightlink.com>
> Cc: Nicolas Boichat <nicolas at boichat.ch>
> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali at linux-fr.org>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
> ---
>
> drivers/hwmon/applesmc.c | 107 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 101 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
Applied to hwmon-2.6.git/testing, thanks.
--
Mark M. Hoffman
mhoffman at lightlink.com
