Re: [PATCH][RFC] P4/Xeon Thermal LVT support

[Alan Cox]

> > handler in fact only displays a warning, by which time the hardware is 
> > already handling the condition.
> 
>  How can't it be critical?  Your system is overheating.  It is about to
> fail -- depending on the configuration, it'll either crash or be shut down

Neither. It will drop to a much lower clock speed. You can set it to overheat
and blow up but thats a mostly undocumented mtrr 8) The default behaviour is
to throttle back hard

Alan