Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Riku, Lennert,
>
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:56:04 +0300, Riku Voipio wrote:
>> Redboot does not touch the fans. The problem is that the fanspeed
>> reading isn't reliable. The "speed" mode tries to adjust pwm to get
>> the fanspeed to match whatever is requested in "expect" registers,
>> but never to enough to get the fans to run.
>
> I see. I have to admit that it isn't very smart from Fintek to set the
> "speed mode" by default on this chip. It would be safer to default to
> full speed. OTOH the default speed target seems to be 4297 RPM if I
> read the datasheet correctly, which is high enough. If the fan speed
> reading isn't reliable (which admittedly is a bad thing to start with)
> I'd expect the chip to set the fan output to the max. Isn't it the case?
>
If it would be setting fan speed to full speed by default
I would not be sending these patches in the first place...
>> With, say, 2x10 rpm disks inside the case, I'd say the risk of
>> disks breaking down prematurely is very real. And I do not
>> want to take the responsibility of people reporting that "installing
>> Debian caused my hardware to break down"
>
> I see. But I can't think of a reason why this can't be simply solved in
> user-space, as Thecus is doing in their own product. This would be much
> easier than the kernel patches you've been sending.
Exactly what should Debian ship in /etc/sensors.conf to make
f75375s turn fans on N2100 systems but nowhere else? Simple
my ASS. Last I read about operating systems, the bloody point
of kernel was to abstract hardware differences.
Conveying platform_data from board configs to drivers
is a well established practice to solve platform specific quirks.
Not to mention that these kind of safety measures should be
done as early as possible. And due to the reasons I already
gave, changing bootloader is not really a option, the kernel
is the next best thing.
>>> Can I see a dump of the chip before the Linux driver is loaded?
>> I'll grab it, but see the first paragraph I wrote.
>
> I'm still interested.
>
> Thanks,
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