[ltp] Re: [RESEND] [PATCH 2/3] Introduce acpi_root_table=rsdt boot param and dmi list to force rsdt

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:46:28 -0200


On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> The rest share one BIOS and have been added in hope that this bug gets solved,
> but this is not proven:
>   T41p shutting down due to "temperature critical"
>   https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=378327
> I saw a kind of fixed temperature offset with the exact same machine models
> and exact same BIOS. Short after cold boot the one machine showed about 15
> degree C more than the other. This looked like wrong, too high temperature
> values read from EC on the one machine. I never found out why, this could
> explain and fix it, but I did not double check.

How is using the RSDT instead of XSDT going to help with that?

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