Abrahm, looking at your DSDT, firmware F.05 solves the thermal zone
problem for OS's other than Windows. It also adds a couple of new
devices but I'm not sure what they do.

Hearing that your fans are actually throttling on F.05 sounds really
encouraging. I got no such thing happening on F.04.

I strongly suspect the missing _PPC object is due to a timing issue. I
believe the SSDT, which loads the _PPC object into the namespace
definitions, is loaded way after the parser encounters a reference to
the _PPC object. It can't find it, because it doesn't know of it yet, so
it throws that namespace error and aborts. It's very sloppy coding.

One simple solution would be to put 'If CondRefOf (_PR.CPU0._PPC)' around the 
code in the DSDT that tries to access it.
It basically checks if _PR.CPU0._PPC exists yet. If not, it won't execute the 
code.

Ofcourse, this is only useful if the code is called again later, when
the _PPC object has been loaded, at which point it will succeed. I'm
thinking this is the case as the code seems to deal with P-States and
throttling. Even without a fix, the buggy code in the DSDT is probably
enough to make P-States work, as evidenced by Abrahm.

As for C-states, it wouldn't surprise me if they simply aren't defined
at all in this BIOS. I'll see if I can find a _CST object...

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No fans, thermalzone on HP Envy 15 and HP DV6T Quad
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