On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 12:54:22PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > Tim Wojtulewicz wrote: > > > No it's definitely supposed to have a fan. It comes on in MacOS. > > > The problem is that the PMU is not fully supported yet, so it doesn't > > > understand that the processor is too hot. I'm trying to find > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Does this mean that I can damage the machine if I just run a high-load > > program?!? > > I strongly doubt that. The PMU should handle this autonomously, regardless > of Linux support for the PMU.
Also, i think the ppc cpu will halt itself when becoming too hot, and not let itself burn. At elast it was so since the earlier 680x0 cpus. Friendly, Sven LUTHER
