On Thu, Apr 25, 2024, at 2:07 PM, Mario Limonciello wrote: > + Srinivas > > On 4/25/2024 12:27, Lyndon Sanche wrote: >> Some Dell laptops support configuration of preset >> fan modes through smbios tables. >> >> If the platform supports these fan modes, set up >> platform_profile to change these modes. If not >> supported, skip enabling platform_profile. >> >> Signed-off-by: Lyndon Sanche <lsanche@xxxxxxxxxx> >> --- > > When you developed this was it using a Dell Intel or Dell AMD system? > > If it was an Intel system, did you test it with thermald installed and > active? > > I'm wondering how all this stuff jives with the stuff that thermald > does. I don't know if they fight for any of the same "resources". Thank you for your response. I did my development and testing on a Dell Intel system. Specifically the XPS 15 9560 with i7-7700HQ. I do have thermald running, though I admit I am not really aware of what exactly it does, besides being related to thermals in some way. I normally set the thermal mode with Dell's smbios-thermal-ctl program. I am not too sure all the values that the bios configures on it's own depending on the provided mode, so I am not sure if thermald conflicts. But my understanding is that would be out of scope of this driver, since we are only telling the bios what we want at a high level. Lyndon
