On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 02:35:18PM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote:
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> On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 13:15 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > That machine has no active thermal trip points, so I'm not sure how it's 
> > relevant here.
> >From above: "Windows as I understand it has vendor mechanisms to..."
> Maybe thermal trip points are not influenced here, it's at least about
> thermal management and another prove that we cannot just try to copy
> Windows behavior, but need to provide workarounds wherever possible.

There's absolutely no evidence in the bug log there that the user's 
problems are in any way due to Windows-specific code. The SetSilentMode 
stuff is an additional item of functionality that underclocks various 
bits of hardware, not one that's actually required for the platform to 
function correctly.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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