Re: Strange entries in /proc/acpi/thermal_zone for Thinkpad X60

[Tomasz Torcz]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 09:28:12PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Robert Hancock wrote:
> >I would expect they wouldn't, otherwise there would be no reason for 
> >the BIOS people to set up two thermal zones..
> 
> Ah, OK.  I misunderstood what thermal zones are.
> 
> >How do you know they are one for each core? ACPI thermal zones can be 
> >anywhere in the machine that needs OS-controlled cooling. Could be the 
> >CPU heatsink, voltage regulator, or someplace else.
> 
> Right, bad assumption on my part.  Is there any way to find out what 
> they might correspond to?  /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal has a bunch of 
> temperature-like numbers in them; I guess there should be some 
> correlation between those and the thermal zones.

  There are many temperature sensors in Thinkpads. There's even map of
them somewhere on http://www.thinkwiki.org.

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Tomasz Torcz                "Funeral in the morning, IDE hacking
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