Re: G5 fan control and official debian kernels.

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

On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 09:17:49AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> hello svenl,
> 
> On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Sven Luther wrote:
> 
> > I have been experimenting with 2.6.16 and 2.6.17 and builtin or modular
> > THERM_PM72 on my XServer G5.
> > 
> > The result is as follows :
> > 
> >   2.6.16 + modular fan control -> airplan noise level.
> >   2.6.17 + modular fan control -> still noisy, but orders of magnitude lower.
> >   2.6.17 + builtin fan control -> noisy, but acceptable noise level.
> 
> did you check it they get loaded by the initramfs?
> please tell which fan and i2c modules need to be added for ppc?
> 
> we currently do in scripts/init-premount/thermal
> case "$DPKG_ARCH" in
> # load the right modules
> powerpc|ppc64)
>         modprobe -q i2c-keywest
> 	modprobe -q therm_pm72
> 	;;

After discussion with BenH, the response to this one is i2c-powermac.

Friendly,

Sven Luther