Aubrey Li wrote: > On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:28 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:35:19AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> >>>>> T-state is Processor Clock Throttling state. It is designated to throttle >>>>> the >>>>> processor clock in a few specific situations, like the CPU temperature >>>>> exceeds a threshold value. >>>>> >>>>> T-state is defined in ACPI spec and need BIOS implementation to get >>>>> supported. The warning message means T-state is not supported on >>>>> your machine. This is mostly because the BIOS doesn't support it. >>>>> >>>> Many systems don't support this, certainly older systems. The system >>>> should not give an error message. >>>> >>>> >>>>> Don't worry, your system won't be impacted at all without T-state support. >>>>> BIOS and Solaris kernel will cover all the cases of T-state. >>>>> >>> Ahhhh - ok. Thanx for explaination. IIRC the Intel SpeedStep thing is >>> disabled in the BIOS (its a i2500PAL board). Or perhaps there is another >>> related option, which sounds not as intuitive as it should ;-) >>> >>> >>>> But the code should be fixed. >>>> >>> Yes - or adding a hint in a wiki/glossary for snv/opensolaris (is there >>> one?) might help to get a googable answer quickly as well ... >>> >> The system should not produce scaring messages when there is no action to >> be taken. >> >> (I see the same message on an old P3; we don't support any form of >> speedstep on that) >> >> >> Casper >> >> > Add Anup and Mark to this thread, since they are T-state author. >
Not much to add, other than to agree that the messages should be removed so as not to raise concerns needlessly. Mark > Thanks, > -Aubrey > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
