On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Levi Khatskevitch wrote:
> I heared there is work being done to enable changing clock speed and watching
> fans from running linux. Many boards also have heat sensors and it should be
> possible to read them as well. Then what about a deamon that initially sets the
> maximum (or optimal) clock speed than if CPU shows signs of overheating it will
> insrease fan RPM (well, that maybe in the future) and/or drop clock speed. In
> case of critical overhead it may even shutdown the machine.
that's on the list. Plus, we can integrate this with the linux ACPI work
that is being done. All of ACPI, throttling, etc. will be in the kernel,
and out of the BIOS.
ron
