Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:29:33 +0200 | From | Andreas Mohr <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/SERIOUS] grilling troubled CPUs for fun and profit? |
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Hi,
[whoa, maybe I shouldn't have used such an inflammatory subject, the mail volume would suggest that ;-)]
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 06:43:12PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 12:16:55AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > Am I completely missing something here? > > > > Yes. You are missing that modern hw already protects itself. See my blog on planet.kernel.org. > > And you are missing that not everyone is running linux on the latest CPUs.
Darn right. Intel has been having thermal protection for a somewhat longer time, but Athlon had serious issues with missing or incompletely functioning thermal sensors on many not too outdated (let's say it was 4 years ago, ok?) motherboard/CPU combos.
And I don't really want to know about thermal protection status of various Cyrix, VIA or even Winchip CPUs (you've been a nic^H^Hïve believer of competition in a healthy marketplace and bought some of those, right? I know I did... ;).
But since Pavel's blog mentions that thermal protection is an ACPI specification, there's hope that it may actually work half-decently after all.
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