Re: Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 03:42:46PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 03:31:15PM +0100, Frederik Schueler wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 02:02:58PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > > Do you intent to disable ACPI entirely for all systems?
> > > 
> > > It appears to me that the affected HP models could be disabled on a per-case
> > > basis using drivers/acpi/blacklist.c
> > 
> > This looks like a good idea to me, do we know which models are affected?
> > 
> > OTOH, I doubt we have a complete list of affected models, and who knows
> > what problems may arise for yet to be released laptops...
> 
> indeed this is a good way.
> acpi patches have known side-effects so i would nack any hand-picking
> of those.
> 
> do we have a report from an affected laptop that booting with noacpi
> solves the thermal issues?

Ah, neat, there is the noacpi option.

We could simply add this flag to affected laptops by d-i. No need to touch the
kernel or otherwise.

Friendly,

Sven Luther