From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964873AbXDAVNL (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Apr 2007 17:13:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965026AbXDAVNL (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Apr 2007 17:13:11 -0400 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:56362 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964873AbXDAVNJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Apr 2007 17:13:09 -0400 Message-ID: <4610205C.5060708@goop.org> Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 14:13:00 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kyle Moffett CC: Andi Kleen , "Brown, Len" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc5: Thinkpad X60 gets critical thermal shutdowns References: <460E0158.7090705@goop.org> <8393D4C0-57C5-4CD2-8CA4-E4241E74FB4E@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <8393D4C0-57C5-4CD2-8CA4-E4241E74FB4E@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Kyle Moffett wrote: > Well, 128C is more than hot enough to boil water and well above the > thermal tolerances of most CPUs, so I would imagine that were your CPU > actually that hot it wouldn't be capable of printing the "Critical > temperature reached" messages, let alone properly rebooting. Yes, its probably a bad reading, but its not complete absurd - chips can operate up to ~100C, but they're definitely unhappy at that point. In fact, I typically get 85-95 degrees from those sensors in normal operation, but I have no idea whether that's a real measurement or not. J