The current sensors-detect avoid Super I/O chips probing on
PowerPC machines. However I have also been reported that this code
can also crash ARM machines. I therefore believe the probing should
be done only on x86 machines. The patch below changes that.
--- a/prog/detect/sensors-detect
+++ b/prog/detect/sensors-detect
@@ -6889,9 +6889,9 @@
print "\n";
$superio_features = 0;
- # Skip "random" I/O port probing on PPC
- if ($kernel_arch ne 'ppc'
- && $kernel_arch ne 'ppc64') {
+ # Skip "random" I/O port probing on non x86 machines
+ if ($kernel_arch =~ /i?86/
+ || $kernel_arch eq 'x86_64') {
print "Some Super I/O chips contain embedded sensors. We have to write to\n".
"standard I/O ports to probe them. This is usually safe.\n";
print "Do you want to scan for Super I/O sensors? (YES/no): ";
--
Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B
aurelien@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.aurel32.net
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