Re: Squeeze: Fan control
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 03:06:35PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> If you have the option of putting temp/fan speed under BIOS control
> instead of operating system control, I'd do so, always.
>
> Putting such things under software control is one of the dumbest things
> this industry ever did. Using a simple hardware only solution is the
> only smart way to do thermal control, for a whole host of reasons.
>
> If you look at the enterprise hardware space (servers, storage arrays,
> switches, routers, etc), NOBODY does thermal control in host OS
> software. It's all done with dedicated hardware controllers.
>
> Which makes one wonder why they do this in host software in the consumer
> space. I think the answer is two words: bells whistles
> I'm not a "pet peeve" person. If I were, doing temp/fan control in host
> software would be a pet peeve of mine.
If I were a cynical, paranoid and Microsoft-hating type, I
would suppose that software fan control provides another
opportunity for proprietary design, and incompabilities with
free software.
Joel
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