On Thu, 2024-04-25 at 14:24 -0600, 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> > > > --- > > > > 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 Can you share output of acpidump tool to me? I want to make sure if there is some way the platform will bypass thermal table if you changed to some profile. Thanks, Srinivas
