The thermal control for the Xserve G5s had a few issues. For one, the
way to program the RPM fans speeds into the FCU is different between it
and the desktop models, which I didn't figure out until recently, and it
was missing a control loop for the slots fan, running it too fast. Both
of those problems were causing the machine to be much more noisy than
necessary. This patch also changes the fixed value of the slots fan for
desktop G5s to 40% instead of 50%. It seems to still have a pretty good
airflow that way and is much less noisy.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
The thermal control for the Xserve G5s had a few issues. For one, the
way to program the RPM fans speeds into the FCU is different between it
and the desktop models, which I didn't figure out until recently, and it
was missing a control loop for the slots fan, running it too fast. Both
of those problems were causing the machine to be much more noisy than
necessary. This patch also changes the fixed value of the slots fan for
desktop G5s to 40% instead of 50%. It seems to still have a pretty good
airflow that way and is much less noisy.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Benjamin Herrenschmidt