On 2011/05/19 20:13, Alexey Suslikov wrote: > Theo de Raadt wrote: > > >On 2010/09/23 15:13, Marco Pfatschbacher wrote: > > >> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 06:11:58PM +0200, Mike Belopuhov wrote: > > >> > there's nothing special about this driver. as it does usual > iic_exec's, > > >> > i'm not sure what can be actually fixed there. so if nobody has any > > >> > idea what could be done about it, you have my okay to disable it > > >> > completely. > > >> > > >> It's not the drivers fault, it seems that polling on piixpm(4) > > >> causes hangs on ServerWorks HT-1000 chips. > > > > I don't believe it. If you searched around, I think you would find > > HT-1000 machines where it does work. > > > > The iic bus drivers are full of bugs. They need maintainers. There > > are some nasty SMI-related issues, but in general what they are doing > > is pretty simple. They are such simple drivers and nearly anyone > > could jump in and help. > > That's correct. > > I have to disable wbsio(4) on X8SIL-based Supermicro box since leaving it > enabled leads to weird things: sudden overheating alarms while no > overheating, > front panel "fault" led blinking while no errors recorded in BIOS log, etc. > > Alexey >
This message would have been more useful if it had a dmesg ;)
