Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756194Ab0H3VnG (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:43:06 -0400 Received: from smtp-04.mandic.com.br ([200.225.81.151]:47742 "EHLO smtp-04.mandic.com.br" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756160Ab0H3VnF (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:43:05 -0400 Message-ID: <4C7C25DF.3070401@cesarb.net> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:42:55 -0300 From: Cesar Eduardo Barros User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100806 Fedora/3.1.2-1.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jesse Barnes CC: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , Joe Perches , Matthew Garrett , platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] intel_ips: quieten "power or thermal limit exceeded" messages References: <1282869660.1836.5.camel@Joe-Laptop> <4C77171E.6060008@cesarb.net> <1282894751.1836.41.camel@Joe-Laptop> <4C784650.2030200@cesarb.net> <1282962104.1946.179.camel@Joe-Laptop> <4C78E8EF.1000009@cesarb.net> <1282994116.1946.226.camel@Joe-Laptop> <4C790693.1060908@cesarb.net> <1283002154.1946.268.camel@Joe-Laptop> <4C791ABA.9070005@cesarb.net> <20100828152335.GA2212@khazad-dum.debian.net> <4C795E5C.1080506@cesarb.net> <20100830092958.1c50c8cb@jbarnes-desktop> In-Reply-To: <20100830092958.1c50c8cb@jbarnes-desktop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1052 Lines: 23 Em 30-08-2010 13:29, Jesse Barnes escreveu: > It's possible that the main issue here is bad thermal limits. There's > obviously a relationship between power and thermal output, but the > driver tries to monitor both. However it's up to the BIOS to provide > the driver with accurate thermal limits, as well as accurate power > limits. The power limits sound reasonable at 25W, thus the > informational output about 35W vs 25W (35W is what the MCP can handle, > but some platforms are designed to handle less, so they clamp it down a > bit). But the temp limits look all wrong. I'll see if I can find info > on getting better data into the driver... If you need more information from this laptop (dmidecode, ACPI AML, etc), just ask. -- Cesar Eduardo Barros cesarb@cesarb.net cesar.barros@gmail.com -- 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/