Re: 2.6.27-rc1: critical thermal shutdown on thinkpad x60

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Now, the CPU cores remains on 1.67GHz and fan is unable to cool them properly
> > under heavy load (even if I set "level disengaged" through thinkpad fan control,
> > temperature sensor shows after a while 128 C (probably not real temp,
> > I expect some critical flag => and it properly switch off the
> > system...)
> 
> How do you control fans? I could not get anything but -EINVAL from IBM
> ACPI driver :-(.

thinkpad-acpi will regard 128 and -128 as invalid sensors, because that's
how they are used in some BIOSes (and ECs).  We used to bother only with
-128, but Lenovo did something wierd in one of the EC firmwares and I had to
add +128 too.  That masks the "help, I am melting" reading.

I have noted that in my TODO, let's see if I can make that into a quirk so
that you won't get -EINVAL anymore.

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