Re: Pismo status
- To: Michael Schmitz <schmitz@opal.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>
- Cc: Albrecht Dreß <ad@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>, Tim Wojtulewicz <Tim.Wojtulewicz@nau.edu>, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Pismo status
- From: Sven LUTHER <luther@debian.org>
- Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 14:08:36 +0200
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20000517140836.A12638@lambda.u-strasbg.fr>
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On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 12:54:22PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > Tim Wojtulewicz wrote:
> > > No it's definitely supposed to have a fan. It comes on in MacOS.
> > > The problem is that the PMU is not fully supported yet, so it doesn't
> > > understand that the processor is too hot. I'm trying to find
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > Does this mean that I can damage the machine if I just run a high-load
> > program?!?
>
> I strongly doubt that. The PMU should handle this autonomously, regardless
> of Linux support for the PMU.
Also, i think the ppc cpu will halt itself when becoming too hot, and not let
itself burn. At elast it was so since the earlier 680x0 cpus.
Friendly,
Sven LUTHER
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