Re: [PATCH 1/5] i8k: Fix non-SMP operation

2014-06-23 Thread Guenter Roeck
On 06/21/2014 11:53 AM, Andreas Mohr wrote: Hi, I'd like to say Thank You for this fix especially and the series in general, as the (proud??) owner of an I8K (yes you read that right). My review of your impressive series ended up fine (I'm sure I'm now missing some official tag somewhere...).

Re: [PATCH 1/5] i8k: Fix non-SMP operation

2014-06-21 Thread Andreas Mohr
Hi, I'd like to say Thank You for this fix especially and the series in general, as the (proud??) owner of an I8K (yes you read that right). My review of your impressive series ended up fine (I'm sure I'm now missing some official tag somewhere...). I haven't done runtime evaluation yet though.

[PATCH 1/5] i8k: Fix non-SMP operation

2014-06-21 Thread Guenter Roeck
Commit f36fdb9f0266 (i8k: Force SMM to run on CPU 0) adds support for multi-core CPUs to the driver. Unfortunately, that causes it to fail loading if compiled without SMP support, at least on 32 bit kernels. Kernel log shows "i8k: unable to get SMM Dell signature", and function i8k_smm is found to