Nevermind the below. It turns out the fan on this test machine was just faulty. I replaced it with a spare from my other T430 and everything works fine now!
Sorry for the spam. Best regards, Davíð On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 10:57:57AM +0000, Davíð Steinn Geirsson wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to get coreboot working on a Lenovo T430. Build and flash were > successful, however it seems the fan control does not work for me. > > The fan spins but at a low speed, and does not increase even if I run > a stresstest like 'stress --cpu 4'. Watching 'sensors' output I can see > temperatures increase past the high point, towards the critical point and > after a couple of minutes the machine shuts down due to a thermal event. > > In the 'sensors' output the fan status is stuck at 65535RPM, but I'm not sure > if that would have been correct on the manufacturers BIOS since I never > tested it. > > Anyone have any ideas? Or maybe some insight into how the fan control stuff > works on these machines (I thought the EC took care of all that stuff without > OS/BIOS intervention)? > > I am running from git master checked out Dec 21 (latest commit I see in my > tree is ceeafa45cae26ab857687082e02eae40d9621291). > > Best regards, > Davíð > > -- > coreboot mailing list: [email protected] > https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
