On 4/25/24 13:28, Mario Limonciello wrote:
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.
This shouldn't be in conflict as this should be directly changing some
settings in BIOS. BIOS should send some notification, if it wants some
changes in thermal tables used by thermald.
Thanks,
Srinivas
