Spurious thermal shutdowns on Dell Studio 1557

Bartosz Fabianowski freebsd at chillt.de
Mon Apr 5 02:33:04 UTC 2010


> 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?"

- Bartosz


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