Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751777AbWJMSKu (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:10:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751775AbWJMSKu (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:10:50 -0400 Received: from nsm.pl ([195.34.211.229]:58570 "EHLO nsm.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751774AbWJMSKt (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:10:49 -0400 Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:10:30 +0200 From: Tomasz Torcz To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Robert Hancock , linux-kernel , "Brown, Len" , "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" Subject: Re: Strange entries in /proc/acpi/thermal_zone for Thinkpad X60 Message-ID: <20061013181030.GA11662@irc.pl> Mail-Followup-To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Robert Hancock , linux-kernel , "Brown, Len" , "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" References: <452F0EB7.2060508@shaw.ca> <452F15DC.8080701@goop.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <452F15DC.8080701@goop.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1736 Lines: 50 --8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 09:28:12PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Robert Hancock wrote: > >I would expect they wouldn't, otherwise there would be no reason for=20 > >the BIOS people to set up two thermal zones.. >=20 > Ah, OK. I misunderstood what thermal zones are. >=20 > >How do you know they are one for each core? ACPI thermal zones can be=20 > >anywhere in the machine that needs OS-controlled cooling. Could be the= =20 > >CPU heatsink, voltage regulator, or someplace else. >=20 > Right, bad assumption on my part. Is there any way to find out what=20 > they might correspond to? /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal has a bunch of=20 > temperature-like numbers in them; I guess there should be some=20 > correlation between those and the thermal zones. There are many temperature sensors in Thinkpads. There's even map of them somewhere on http://www.thinkwiki.org. --=20 Tomasz Torcz "Funeral in the morning, IDE hacking zdzichu@irc.-nie.spam-.pl in the afternoon and evening." - Alan Cox --8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: gpg --search-keys Tomasz Torcz iD8DBQFFL9aW10UJr+75NrkRAvjMAJ91ShWmLIAlVOVn4ackaNtugm+eBgCfQw16 jkw3KCCpvgcpAHzAPwtAHBQ= =A6je -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/