On 4/25/2024 15:24, Lyndon Sanche wrote:
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>
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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
Yeah it's not say it's a "new" conflict, it would just become a lot more
prevalent since software like GNOME and KDE use power-profiles-daemon to
manipulate the new power profile you're exporting from the driver.
If there really is no conflict, then great!
If there is a conflict then I was just wondering if there needs to be an
easy way to turn on/off the profile support when thermald is in use.
