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DateFri, 01 Aug 2008 17:07:48 -0400 (EDT)
FromLen Brown <>
SubjectRe: 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:

> 
> 
> On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, Eric Piel wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> The should return a valid temperature from _CRT,
> and that should work everyplace without any check for OS version.
> 
> We know that this must work, because plenty of Vista compatible
> platforms do it -- such as the T61 that I'm typing on.
> 
> 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.
> 
> -Len
> 
> 


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