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Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:07:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
To: Eric Piel <eric.piel@...mplin-utc.net>
Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
linux-acpi <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
"Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@...el.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
Christian Kornacker <ckornacker@...e.de>
Subject: Re: ACPI OSI disaster on latest HP laptops - critical temperature
shutdown
[resend of a message that didn't hit the list]
On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, Len Brown wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, Eric Piel wrote:
>
> > Just out of curiosity, let's imagine that today HP decides to fix its BIOS.
> > What would be the way to do it? Of course, without putting additional problems
> > when Windows is booted.
>
> The should return a valid temperature from _CRT,
> and that should work everyplace without any check for OS version.
>
> We know that this must work, because plenty of Vista compatible
> platforms do it -- such as the T61 that I'm typing on.
>
> ie. we really don't know why HP returned _CRT=0 for vista in this BIOS,
> we just assume that it didn't cause anything bad to happen.
>
> -Len
>
>
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