2.6.26: thinkpad x60 is cooled passively

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Wed Aug 13 2008 - 04:05:22 EST

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Hi!

While verifying that -rc2 regression is gone, I noticed alarming
stuff:

1) thinkpad x60 relies on passive cooling. You have nice 1.8GHz cpu,
which goes away as soon as you load it.

2) after some time it decides that 100% cpu in 1.0GHz is fine for you,
and it takes quite long to recover.
Pavel
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