Re: [lm-sensors] 2.6.24-rc4 hwmon it87 probe fails

2007-12-23 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Bjorn, Le 23/12/2007, Bjorn Helgaas a écrit: On Saturday 22 December 2007 4:21:41 am Jean Delvare wrote: This patch makes the it87 driver request only the two ports used for the Environment Controller device. The problem is that the IT87xxF chips do decode 4 ports (recent chips,

Re: [lm-sensors] 2.6.24-rc4 hwmon it87 probe fails

2007-12-23 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Sunday 23 December 2007 2:28:05 am Jean Delvare wrote: Le 23/12/2007, Bjorn Helgaas a écrit: On Saturday 22 December 2007 4:21:41 am Jean Delvare wrote: This patch makes the it87 driver request only the two ports used for the Environment Controller device. The problem is that the

Re: [lm-sensors] 2.6.24-rc4 hwmon it87 probe fails

2007-12-22 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Bjorn, Le 21/12/2007, Bjorn Helgaas [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: On Tuesday 18 December 2007 10:59:18 am Jean Delvare wrote: My initial idea was to identify the faulty motherboard using DMI and to force pnpacpi=off on the faulty motherboards. If this is considered too aggressive, maybe we

Re: [lm-sensors] 2.6.24-rc4 hwmon it87 probe fails

2007-12-22 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Saturday 22 December 2007 4:21:41 am Jean Delvare wrote: This patch makes the it87 driver request only the two ports used for the Environment Controller device. The problem is that the IT87xxF chips do decode 4 ports (recent chips, 0x294-0x297) or 8 ports (older chips, 0x290-0x297), not 2

Re: [lm-sensors] 2.6.24-rc4 hwmon it87 probe fails

2007-12-21 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Tuesday 18 December 2007 10:59:18 am Jean Delvare wrote: My initial idea was to identify the faulty motherboard using DMI and to force pnpacpi=off on the faulty motherboards. If this is considered too aggressive, maybe we can just reject resource declarations that intersect (but don't

Re: [lm-sensors] 2.6.24-rc4 hwmon it87 probe fails

2007-12-21 Thread Mike Houston
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:00:30 -0700 Bjorn Helgaas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you think of something like the following patch? If we do this, I don't think we'd need to force pnpacpi=off or change the way PNP reserves resources. I'll be on vacation until about January 2, so I won't be

Re: [lm-sensors] 2.6.24-rc4 hwmon it87 probe fails

2007-12-19 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Sunday 09 December 2007 09:02:11 pm Mike Houston wrote: On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:31:27 +0800 Shaohua Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This should exist in previous kernel (before we remove acpi motherboard driver) too. Basically it's a broken BIOS. Could below patch work around it?

Re: [lm-sensors] 2.6.24-rc4 hwmon it87 probe fails

2007-12-19 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Tuesday 18 December 2007 10:59:18 am Jean Delvare wrote: The real cause is pretty clear here: broken BIOS. In an ideal world we would ask the manufacturer for a fixed BIOS and they would give that to us, unfortunately my experience is that it won't happen. So, unless we accept that idea

Re: [lm-sensors] 2.6.24-rc4 hwmon it87 probe fails

2007-12-19 Thread Carlos Corbacho
On Thursday 20 December 2007 00:20:21 Bjorn Helgaas wrote: I suspect the manufacturers would say Oh, the sensors? The BIOS isn't broken, you're just supposed to use WMI or some (undocumented) ACPI device to get at those. It's quite possible - can we have DSDTs for the boards in question so we

Re: [lm-sensors] 2.6.24-rc4 hwmon it87 probe fails

2007-12-19 Thread Robert Hancock
Carlos Corbacho wrote: On Thursday 20 December 2007 00:20:21 Bjorn Helgaas wrote: I suspect the manufacturers would say Oh, the sensors? The BIOS isn't broken, you're just supposed to use WMI or some (undocumented) ACPI device to get at those. It's quite possible - can we have DSDTs for the

Re: [lm-sensors] 2.6.24-rc4 hwmon it87 probe fails

2007-12-19 Thread Elvis Pranskevichus
On Wednesday December 19 2007 07:45:14 pm Carlos Corbacho wrote: On Thursday 20 December 2007 00:20:21 Bjorn Helgaas wrote: I suspect the manufacturers would say Oh, the sensors? The BIOS isn't broken, you're just supposed to use WMI or some (undocumented) ACPI device to get at those.

Re: [lm-sensors] 2.6.24-rc4 hwmon it87 probe fails

2007-12-19 Thread Carlos Corbacho
On Thursday 20 December 2007 02:13:22 Elvis Pranskevichus wrote: Hi Carlos, I've attached the DSDT for Gigabyte GA-965G-DS3 (rev 1.0, bios rev. F9) to bugzilla entry #9514: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=14132 A quick look over the DSDT shows that there is no ACPI-WMI mapper

Re: [lm-sensors] 2.6.24-rc4 hwmon it87 probe fails

2007-12-18 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Bjorn, On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:14:43 -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: On Sunday 16 December 2007 06:59:39 pm Shaohua Li wrote: On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 23:02 -0500, Mike Houston wrote: On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:31:27 +0800 Shaohua Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This should exist in previous

Re: [lm-sensors] 2.6.24-rc4 hwmon it87 probe fails

2007-12-17 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Sunday 16 December 2007 06:59:39 pm Shaohua Li wrote: On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 23:02 -0500, Mike Houston wrote: On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:31:27 +0800 Shaohua Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This should exist in previous kernel (before we remove acpi motherboard driver) too. Basically it's a

Re: [lm-sensors] 2.6.24-rc4 hwmon it87 probe fails

2007-12-16 Thread Shaohua Li
On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 23:02 -0500, Mike Houston wrote: On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:31:27 +0800 Shaohua Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This should exist in previous kernel (before we remove acpi motherboard driver) too. Basically it's a broken BIOS. Could below patch work around it? Thanks,

Re: [lm-sensors] 2.6.24-rc4 hwmon it87 probe fails

2007-12-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 04:12:25PM -0500, Elvis Pranskevichus wrote: Jean Delvare wrote: Hi Mike, On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 21:22:34 -0500, Mike Houston wrote: On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 01:05:54 +0100 Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:51:54PM -0500, Mike Houston

Re: [lm-sensors] 2.6.24-rc4 hwmon it87 probe fails

2007-12-09 Thread Shaohua Li
On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 23:04 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 04:12:25PM -0500, Elvis Pranskevichus wrote: Jean Delvare wrote: Hi Mike, On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 21:22:34 -0500, Mike Houston wrote: On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 01:05:54 +0100 Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lm-sensors] 2.6.24-rc4 hwmon it87 probe fails

2007-12-09 Thread Elvis Pranskevichus
On Sunday December 9 2007 09:31:27 pm Shaohua Li wrote: On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 23:04 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 04:12:25PM -0500, Elvis Pranskevichus wrote: Jean Delvare wrote: Hi Mike, On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 21:22:34 -0500, Mike Houston wrote: On Sun, 9 Dec

Re: [lm-sensors] 2.6.24-rc4 hwmon it87 probe fails

2007-12-09 Thread Mike Houston
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:31:27 +0800 Shaohua Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This should exist in previous kernel (before we remove acpi motherboard driver) too. Basically it's a broken BIOS. Could below patch work around it? Thanks, Shaohua Index: linux/drivers/pnp/system.c