Re: Debian on a 2.5 Ghz G5 - liquid cooling system
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 11:07:18AM +0200, Bob Hentges wrote:
> As you probably already know, the Dual 2.5 Ghz PowerMac has a liquid
> cooling system, which is described pretty good here [1]. I am conscious
> that time will probably tell us the answer, but I just wanted to advance
> the following right away.
>
> It seems that the cooling system is entirely controlled by the operating
> system, OS X of course. (At least that is what this sentence made me
> think: "Mac OS X dynamically adjusts the flow of the fluid and the speed
> of the fans based on temperature." quotation from [1])
>
> Now, if the cooling system is controlled by the os and not by the
> hardware itself, won't there be some obstacles on getting debian or any
> other distribution working on that machine?
Isn't this what the therm_pm72 module takes care of? It's built into
current 2.6 kernels.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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