On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 06:23:38AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:56:56PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > > > > > > > 5. Doing a 'modprobe i2c-piix4' generates the following kernel log > > > > > messages: > > > > > i2c-core.o: i2c core module version 2.8.1 (20031005) > > > > > i2c-piix4.o version 2.8.1 (20031005) > > > > > Found ServerWorks OSB4 South Bridge device > > > > > dmi_scan.o version 2.8.1 (20031005) > > > > > dmi_scan.o: SM BIOS found > > > > > Worked around buggy BIOS (I2C) > > > > > > > > That last message looks interesting. I would edit i2c-piix4.c in > > > > your 2.8.1 sources and disable that workaround. Could be that on > > > > your system, the workaround does more harm than help. Or it might be > > > > worse, I dunno;) > > > > > > I disabled that workaround and everything works fine now. Thanks a > > > lot! I am not sure if you would like to investigate this further. I > > > assume you got better things to do :-) > > > If you are interested in investigating this and I can provide any > > > additional data, do not hesitate to contact me again, so I will do > > > what I can to help improve lm_sensors. > > > > That workaround was suggested by Tom Rini and the patch was applied in > > August 2003. It was supposed to fix a problem on the Force CPCI-735. > > After testing it on "normal" systems, we thought it was safe for > > everyone, and applied the change. Looks like we were wrong. > > > > Could it be that it is safe for Intel PIIX4 chips but *not* for > > ServerWorks ones? > > Unfortunatly, the Force CPCI-735 has a ServerWorks chipset. I'm double > checking what rev the board has (perhaps this is fixed in newer > revisions of the chipset). FYI, from lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: ServerWorks CNB20LE (rev 06) 00:00.1 Host bridge: ServerWorks CNB20LE (rev 06) 00:0f.0 ISA bridge: ServerWorks OSB4 (rev 50) 00:0f.1 IDE interface: ServerWorks: Unknown device 0211 00:0f.2 USB Controller: ServerWorks: Unknown device 0220 (rev 04) -- Tom Rini http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/attachments/20031121/c0243591/attachment.bin
