On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 11:25 +0200, Linux User #330250 wrote: > Hello! > > First: I'm just a user. And I hope I don't cause disturbance. > > I've read about this when I was setting up Linux on my Power Mac G4 MDD about > two years ago and I remember reading that the temperature might be reported > falsely. The original author reduced the limits to be on the safe side. > > While Mac OS X seems to push the allowed temperature more to the limits, it > could still be fatal to trust the reported temperatures. > > > My machine had the same shut-downs due to temperature at first. Since my MDD > was quite a few years old when I got it I cleaned the CPUs and used new > thermal compound with the original heatsink. This fixed the "overheat" issue > for me.
Thanks. I think pushing them a bit like this patch does still remains within reasonably safe limits though. The CPU should cope with more hopefully :-) But yeah, cleaning up the dust is definitely a good idea :-) Cheers, Ben. > > Sorry to interrupt, > Andreas aka Linux User #330250 > > > > ---------- Original message ---------- > Subject: [PATCH] powermac: thermal control turns system off in normal > temperature conditions > Date: Sonntag, 30. August 2009N > From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[email protected]> > To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]> > > > From: Lyonel Vincent <[email protected]> > > Subject: [PATCH] powermac: thermal control turns system off in normal > > temperature conditions > > > > On certain PowerMacs, a module (therm_windtunnel) controls various > > thermal settings (it can report CPU/case temperature, change speed > > of internal fans, etc.) > > > > By default, the hardware thermal control has a temperature limit to > > protect the computer from damages (the default limit seems to be 80°C) > > but therm_windtunnel.c reduces it to an anormaly low value (65°C), > > which means that he computer will shut down randomly when hit by direct > > sun light or during summer (summer in France can be quite hot), actually > > possibly losing data instead of protecting it. > > > > The overheat limit in therm_windtunnel.c:253-254 should be set to 75°C > > and 70°C instead of 65°C and 60°C respectively. > > > > From: Lyonel Vincent <[email protected]> > > Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[email protected]> > > --- > > Resurrected from Fedora's bugzilla (aka The Big Black Hole): > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=171937 > > > > The patch itself seems perfectly valid to me > > (especially given comments in therm_windtunnel.c). > > > > drivers/macintosh/therm_windtunnel.c | 4 ++-- > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > > > Index: b/drivers/macintosh/therm_windtunnel.c > > =================================================================== > > --- a/drivers/macintosh/therm_windtunnel.c > > +++ b/drivers/macintosh/therm_windtunnel.c > > @@ -239,8 +239,8 @@ setup_hardware( void ) > > * to be on the safe side (OSX doesn't)... > > */ > > if( x.overheat_temp == (80 << 8) ) { > > - x.overheat_temp = 65 << 8; > > - x.overheat_hyst = 60 << 8; > > + x.overheat_temp = 75 << 8; > > + x.overheat_hyst = 70 << 8; > > write_reg( x.thermostat, 2, x.overheat_hyst, 2 ); > > write_reg( x.thermostat, 3, x.overheat_temp, 2 ); _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
