Need a patch tested on a windtunnel powermac

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue May 5 00:52:32 EST 2009


On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 03:17:08PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 08:24:48PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
>>On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 09:30:59AM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
>>>Does anyone here still have a "windtunnel" powermac (PowerMac3,6)
>>>machine running Linux?  We need someone to test Jean Delvare's patch
>>>to the therm_windtunnel driver.  The patch is at:
>>>
>>>http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/26095/
>>>
>>>I don't have a windtunnel machine myself - I have a PowerMac3,5 but
>>>not a PowerMac3,6.
>>
>>I might have one.  I'll pull the G4 I have out of it's box and check tomorrow.
>
>Amazingly enough, I do.  It's running some crusty-arse gentoo install from
>2005, so I need to install something newer on it.  Hopefully that goes smoothly
>today...

Ok, installed 2.6.30-rc4 plus Jean's patch and it appears to do something
correctly:

[jwboyer at localhost macintosh]$ sudo modprobe therm_windtunnel
[jwboyer at localhost macintosh]$ dmesg
<snip>
DS1775 digital thermometer [@49]
Temp: 52.5 C  Hyst: 75.0 C  OS: 80.0 C
ADM1030 fan controller [@2c]
Reducing overheating limit to 65.0 C (Hyst: 60.0 C)
CPU-temp: 52.9 C, Case: 31.3 C,  Fan: 0 (tuned -11)
[jwboyer at localhost macintosh]$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.30-rc4 #1 SMP Mon May 4 10:20:39 EDT 2009 ppc ppc ppc GNU/Linux


josh



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