fwts cpu + thermal checking test?

[Alex Hung]

On 05/31/2012 11:51 PM, Colin Ian King wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Since fan control is under firmware control on a range of x86 hardware
> and passive thermal controls such as CPU scaling can be BIOS controlled
> I suspect we should look into adding thermal overrun tests to fwts.
>
> I'd like to add that to the fwts quantal blueprint, I know it's late in
> the day, but I think it is a worthy test to add to fwts. Any takers?
>
> Colin
>

I think it's a good idea, but implementation may be challenging.

 From my understanding, not all fans are controllable by kernel because 
fan can be controlled by EC solely. This can be probably checked by acpi 
fan devices with id PNP0C0B.

Are you thinking of making it a batch test or an interactive tests?

Are we expecting to trigger critical thermal temperature so the system 
would shutdown or hibernate?

Cheers,
Alex Hung