> Very strange indeed. Another possibility is that there is a hardware > monitoring chip connected to one of the Radeon adapter's I2C buses, and > that holding the I2C lines prevents reading from it, so whatever is > responsible for controlling the temperature prefers to play it safe and > shuts everything down. Somehow it seems more realistic than an actual > overheating (3 seconds is a very short period of time for that), but > we'd need the exact schematics of the hardware, and the details of the > thermal control system, to validate this theory. > > Anyway, no need to worry anymore now that the bug is fixed :)
Actually, that's a possibility yes, though generally Apple put all temp. monitoring chips elsewhere, it could well be the case. Ben. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
