Re: G5 fan control and official debian kernels.
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 09:47:32AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> 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?
>
> No, it is a bug in the kernel, and even loading them by hand doesn't help.
>
> I do have the module in /etc/modules for the above attempt.
that does not put them in the initramfs,
use /etc/initramfs-tools/modules for that.
> > 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
> > ;;
>
> Indeed. There are the winfarm ones too.
not sure, i didn't see an i2c-keywest.c in the linux-2.6 source.
> > > So, i believe that the choice for the debian kernel is to have builtin both
> > > the I2C_POWERMAC and the THERM_PM72 modules.
> > >
> > > Of the other therm control modules, we have :
> > >
> > > CONFIG_WINDFARM
> > > CONFIG_WINDFARM_PM81
> > > CONFIG_WINDFARM_PM91
> > > CONFIG_WINDFARM_PM112
> > >
> > > I suppose they also will all benefit from being builtin, right ?
> >
> > afaik ubuntu has those modular too,
> > please check if loading them real early helps!?
>
> i don't have the hardware for thos,e which is why i wrote this one. It seems
> common knowledge that they need to be builtin for now though.
well i question that "common" knowledge as a very userfriendly distro
does not do it!?
maybe benh has some opinion on it.
> > non-modular may need db-measurement arg :)
>
> not necessarily, but i admit i am not all that knowledgeable about this.
db measurement would give a clear cut.
> Oh, and BTW, initramfs-tools generated ramdisks attempt to load the
> atkbd/i8042 modules on hardware not having any ps2 support. Can anything be
> done about it.
ppc builds those modular, which makes debuggig an initramfs a pain.
we already had an lengthy discussion about that 1/2 year ago.
as you like to keep them modular i need to load them or
the user might not be able to do anithing in the rescue shell.
how about fixing those drivers?!
regards
--
maks
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