Spurious thermal shutdowns on Dell Studio 1557

[Dana Myers]

On 4/4/2010 7:32 PM, Bartosz Fabianowski wrote:
>> Agreed. I came into this thread late and admit I'm not sure what
>> support for CPU throttling is in FreeBSD. Ideally, Notify() events on
>> the CPU objects will cause dynamic re-evaluation of the associated
>> _PPC object.
>
> There seems to be plenty of support for throttling. But if the BIOS 
> provides bogus _PSV and _CRT values, there is only that much FreeBSD 
> can do. That is how the thread started, with the question: "How come 
> _PSV > _CRT on my machine and what should I do about it?"

My apologies.  Indeed, a lying BIOS is hard to deal with,
especially when the system really depends on the BIOS
to keep things sane (as in this case).

Dana