P.S. This patch also moves the responsibility for enabling hardware thermal control from the OS to the BIOS.
On Feb 3, 2008 10:13 PM, Russell Leidich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > > You can imagine my dismay when I recently learned that, after all our > collective effort, hardware thermal throttling does not work reliably > on Barcelona, according to AMD. Due to NDA restrictions, I am unable > to provide further details. > > But the effort has not been a waste; whenever AMD manages to make a > reliable hardware thermal sensor, this code should "just work" along > with all the other northbridge initialization associated with the > device IDs in k8_northbridges[]. > > This patch Blacklists Barcelona as non-hardware-thermal-throttlable > (in addition to RevF, which was already blacklisted). On the > recommendation of my colleagues, it also contains these politeness > enhancements: (1) warns the user if the CPU is _not_ blacklisted, but > the BIOS neglected to enable thermal throttling (as a safety measure) > and (2) uses the PCI_SLOT macro instead of the more obnoxious > shift-right-by-3 to compute PCI device numbers. > > This patch assumes that it is being applied _after_ my previous patch > has already been integrated. I mailed out that patch on 1/17/2008 > with subject "Re: [PATCH] AMD Thermal Interrupt Support". > -- > Russell Leidich > -- Russell Leidich -- 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/