Bug#110273: ITP: lvcool -- "cools" the AMD K7 (Athlon/Duron) CPU

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> Package: lvcool
> Description: "cools" the AMD K7 (Athlon/Duron) CPU
>  This little utility will cool your Athlon/Duron processor on Via
>  KT133 or KX133(A) (VT8363 or VT8371/VT82C686x) chipsets during idle
>  states. It switches to STPGNT mode and works "more effective" than
>  kernels HLT command.

It can also severely screw up your system, cause data corruption and data
loss, and all sort of nasty things if your motherboard can not handle the
CPU switching the powersave mode on/off (30 A step in 1.75V line), or it
detaching/reataching from the FSB bus (which can corrupt PCI bustmastering
transfers).

I suggest you make that very much clear to the user, and allow she to abort
the install.

See linux-kernel ML for more info (or rather, search its archives).

-- 
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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh