Thanks, I didn't know about that parameter! However, it does sound somewhat dangerous – sure, I could give it a shot but I basically have no idea how thermald and the firmware interact and what the consequences would be. :\ I mean, I want to ignore/disable lap mode (because that one has been just plain stupid) but I don't want thermald to completely ignore what CPU I have, either.

(Essentially we're back again to the situation I described: It's all very intransparent to me.)