On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:54:24 +0200, Rudolf Marek wrote:
> > etc etc. This appears to be the half-standard ATK0110 implementation
> > for which a driver was posted to the lm-sensors list a few months ago.
> > Maybe for this motherboard you should use this driver rather than the
> > dme1737 driver. Adding Rudolf in Cc, I think he knows more about this
> > driver's status.
>
> Hmm dont know more it seems. Perhaps contact original author? Those ACPI
> routines are not called unless the TMP method for thermal stuff is called. So If
> there will be no readings from the acpi thermal sysfs/proc file the method will
> not run (in theory if the code is write like here)
Even if the ACPI thermal driver is set to automatic polling mode?
> > The DSDT also includes references to the nforce2's SMBus:
> >
> > Device (SMB0)
> > {
> > Name (_ADR, 0x000A0001)
> > OperationRegion (SMCF, PCI_Config, 0x48, 0x10)
> > Field (SMCF, DWordAcc, NoLock, Preserve)
> > {
> > SMPM, 4,
> > SMT1, 28,
> > SMT2, 32
> > }
> >
> > OperationRegion (SMCA, PCI_Config, 0x20, 0x08)
> > Field (SMCA, DWordAcc, NoLock, Preserve)
> > {
> > SB1, 32,
> > SB2, 32
> > }
> >
> > OperationRegion (PDEV, PCI_Config, 0xE8, 0x04)
> > Scope (\)
> > {
> > Field (\_SB.PCI0.SMB0.PDEV, AnyAcc, NoLock, Preserve)
> > {
> > , 12,
> > ACIE, 1
> > }
> > }
> >
> > Method (SMBB, 0, NotSerialized)
> > {
> > If (PCIA)
> > {
> > And (SB1, 0xFFFE, Local0)
> > }
> > Else
> > {
> > Store (0x4C00, Local0)
> > }
> >
> > Return (Local0)
> > }
> > }
> >
> > So at the very least I'd say it's not safe to use the i2c-nforce2 and
> > dme1737 drivers when the fan and thermal ACPI drivers are in use. But
> > it may even not be safe when these ACPI drivers aren't loaded, I don't
> > know.
>
> It depends what methods are called. Imho if you remove the "thermal" support
> from the ACPI it should be ok. If someone gives me the table, I can take a look.
I'll send it to you in private.
--
Jean Delvare
