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On Monday 14 Nov 2016 19:05:26 Mick wrote: |
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> Hi All, |
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> I started installing gentoo on a Macbook pro 15" and stopped soon after I |
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> created new partitions for it. I could feel the Macbook overheating while |
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> running the sysrescuecd kernel, without me having compiled a single package |
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> yet. |
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> I'm guessing it is missing some drivers; for example I have no wireless |
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> interface listed, although sysrescuecd has loaded the bcma module. |
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> Has anyone attempted running gentoo on this hardware and what solution did |
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> you follow to control CPU voltage/temperatures? |
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I'm posting this in case it troubles anyone else in the future. |
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I made some time to revisit this problem and found that kworker/0:2 was pegged |
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at 100% CPU. Google advised this is a kernel bug, according to this report at |
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least and disabling the corresponding interrupt (gpe16 in my case) appears to |
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have brought the overheating under control: |
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1115658 |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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