[ltp] Re: Recently identified ThinkPad mysteriouses

[Elias Oltmanns]

Thomas Renninger <trenn-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org> wrote:
[...]
>  - IBM T41p shuts down, powersave, Temperature state changed to critical
>    https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=333043
>
>    This affects a lot machines (T41(p), T42(p), T43(p), R40)
>    I expect the real culprit is a confused EC (one machine had the
>    problem, the other one not).
>    Anyway, it seems ACPI notifies had higher priority (or did not get
>    scheduled away) in former kernels. Therefore the BIOS could still
>    avoid a critical thermal shutdown through lowering CPU frequency
>    (_PPC) interface on older kernels, but something seem to have
>    changed there...

Does it make any difference whether one of the _PPC-aware cpufreq
drivers is loaded or not?  Just a thought but I don't really know very
much about all this stuff.

Regards,

Elias