On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, Tom Spindler wrote:
Apparently, Intel in their infinite wisdom provides BIOS vendors a detailed list of CPUs, indexed by type and stepping, and the related value for Tcc. Then it's up to the BIOS vendors to adjust temperature readings based on this reference value. Damn, I hate proprietary solutions to generic problems! :)Similar sorts of issues exist with the magic value -> voltage mapping for EST. However (for EST, at least) there are usually ACPI tables with such data; the same sort of thing might exist for Tcc values.
Yuck! Now I gotta go learn about acpi? :)Any pointers on where to start? (I've so far managed to avoid even the slightest peek under the ACPI covers...)
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