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>The EC retains control of the fans because an OS process could crash, starve, or otherwise fail to do its job in a timer manner. Without that code running, the
by ChuckNorris89 5y ago
>The EC retains control of the fans because an OS process could crash, starve, or otherwise fail to do its job in a timer manner. Without that code running, the hardware cooks itself.
I mean, there's no reason why the EC can't be the default and the emergency fallback for fan control and the OS takes over after boot. Apple got this working on Intel MacBooks, I'm sure Windows and Dell/Lenovo could too if they wanted to.