Kernel functionality which replaced cpuspeed daemon thermal limits ?

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 03:27:52PM +0200, Petr Šabata wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 11:33:59AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > Can anyone point out the kernel cpufreq config that I might have missed
> > to make it take into account thermal sensors when controlling CPU freq ?
> > 
> > If there is none, then I intend to re-submit cpuspeed for review and
> > inclusion in Fedora repos.
> 
> Sadly, it seems kernel indeed doesn't provide any support for
> your specific case.  You could easily write some scripts to
> handle this for you...  or re-include cpuspeed again, yes.

The kernel pays attention to the thermal limits provided by the 
platform. If the platform doesn't provide any thermal limits then you 
can write a value to the passive file in the ACPI thermal zone and it'll 
limit the frequency when it reaches that temperature.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org