Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:07:48 -0400 (EDT) | | From | Len Brown <> | | Subject | Re: ACPI OSI disaster on latest HP laptops - critical temperature shutdown | |
[resend of a message that didn't hit the list]
On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, Len Brown wrote:
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> On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, Eric Piel wrote:
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> > Just out of curiosity, let's imagine that today HP decides to fix its BIOS.
> > What would be the way to do it? Of course, without putting additional problems
> > when Windows is booted.
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> The should return a valid temperature from _CRT,
> and that should work everyplace without any check for OS version.
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> We know that this must work, because plenty of Vista compatible
> platforms do it -- such as the T61 that I'm typing on.
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> ie. we really don't know why HP returned _CRT=0 for vista in this BIOS,
> we just assume that it didn't cause anything bad to happen.
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> -Len
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