On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> On a new P4, this message shows up very early in the boot process:
>
> cpu0: running without thermal monitor!
>
> (The machine has HT, so it shows up for both CPUs.)
>
> What does it mean, and should I be worried?  I'm running a near-generic
> MPACPI kernel.  acpitz is in the config file, but is apparently not on
> the machine.  'envstat -l' doesn't list any sensors.
>
> Should I be concerned that the machine might overheat without some fan
> control process?  Would I be better off without ACPI?
>
> Here are all the dmesg messages that refer to acpi.  (Yup -- new job,
> hence new machines, and hence lots of new strange and wondrous things
> to fight....)
>
> NetBSD 2.99.12 (GENERIC.MPACPI) #0: Mon Jan  3 08:33:45 EST 2005
>        smb@:/usr/BUILD/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MPACPI
> cpu0: features bfebfbff<PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX>
> cpu1: features bfebfbff<PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX>
> acpi0 at mainbus0
> acpi0: using Intel ACPI CA subsystem version 20040211
> acpi0: X/RSDT: OemId <DELL  , 8400   ,00000007>, AslId <ASL ,00000061>
> acpi0: SCI interrupting at int 9
> acpi0: fixed-feature power button present
> mpacpi: could not get bus number, assuming bus 0
> ACPI Object Type 'Processor' (0x0c) at acpi0 not configured
> ACPI Object Type 'Processor' (0x0c) at acpi0 not configured
> acpibut0 at acpi0 (PNP0C0C): ACPI Power Button
> PNP0A03 [PCI Bus] at acpi0 not configured
> PNP0C01 [System Board] at acpi0 not configured
> PNP0200 [AT DMA Controller] at acpi0 not configured
> npx0 at acpi0 (PNP0C04)
> PNP0000 [AT Interrupt Controller] at acpi0 not configured
> PNP0800 [AT-style speaker sound] at acpi0 not configured
> PNP0B00 [AT Real-Time Clock] at acpi0 not configured
> PNP0100 [AT Timer] at acpi0 not configured
> fdc0 at acpi0 (PNP0700)
> pckbc0 at acpi0 (PNP0303): kbd port
> pckbc1 at acpi0 (PNP0F13): aux port
> lpt0 at acpi0 (PNP0401)
> com0 at acpi0 (PNP0501-1)
> PNP0C0F [PCI interrupt link device] at acpi0 not configured
> PNP0C0F [PCI interrupt link device] at acpi0 not configured
> PNP0C0F [PCI interrupt link device] at acpi0 not configured
> PNP0C0F [PCI interrupt link device] at acpi0 not configured
> PNP0C0F [PCI interrupt link device] at acpi0 not configured
> PNP0C0F [PCI interrupt link device] at acpi0 not configured
> PNP0C0F [PCI interrupt link device] at acpi0 not configured
> PNP0C01 [System Board] at acpi0 not configured
> PNP0C02 [Plug and Play motherboard register resources] at acpi0 not configured
> PNP0103 at acpi0 not configured
>
>
> 		--Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
>
>
>

Hi,

is it a HP server? A "Pizzabox"?

A friend of mine had a  problem with HP Pizza under FreeBSD. Since 
there was no driver, Fans ran with maximum speed nonstop (annoying).

All HP said is "Win / Linux supported with binary drivers". Don't know if 
that changed meanwhile or wheter NetBSD does better on those machines.

-Florian