cpu overheating

[Les]

On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 06:06 +0000, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On 12/14/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 18:05 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> >
> > > As I have stated since the beginning, this happened to me very
> > > recently. This warning comes from the kernel. Only after the problem
> > > did I setup lm_sensors.
> >
> > I'm curious about how it's generated.  CPU says it's too hot, as a flag?
> > A variable value is counted to equate to temperatures?
> 
> I's assume the former....the term ACPI comes to mind upon reading your
> question. But I lack much detail on the topic.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Fedora Core 6 and proud
> 
The cpu has a watchdog A/D internally with one or more thermal diodes.
The transfer curves are processor and technology dependent, so the
system has to know some "stuff" to set up calibration for what is read.
I don't know the software side of it.  sorry.

Regards,
Les H