[LinuxBIOS] Thermal monitoring of Pentium 4s

[Ronald G. Minnich]

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Steven J. Magnani wrote:

> Ronald G. Minnich writes:
> > the kernel (directed by a user-mode program) should do it.
> 
> Ahh, but if the payload is memtest86, there IS no kernel. And that's
> where we're having serious shutdown issues.

ah, ok. 

> I would argue that since this is a lurking "feature" of LinuxBIOS (you
> have to know about it to avoid being bitten, and have to actively do
> something in the kernel to avoid thermal issues) that having LB enable
> thermal monitoring should be configurable. That would solve both our
> issues.

you are right. We'll need to set up an enable method for the p4 cpu 
resource, and then allow you to set "registers" commands to turn on t1, 
etc. 

Um, volunteers :-)

ron