Re: Kernel 2.6.7 speedstep-piix4 on vaio

[Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 10:27:29PM +0200, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
 > On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 08:31:41PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
 > > On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 08:20:49PM +0000, Ivor Hewitt wrote:
 > >  > On Thursday 29 July 2004 21:04, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
 > >  > > On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 03:20:00PM +0100, Ivor Hewitt wrote:
 > >  > >
 > >  > > Therefore, the speedstep-smi driver contains a few tweaks which modify the
 > >  > > "language" a bit: have you tried passing the module options
 > >  > > "smi_port=0xb2 smi_cmd=0x82" yet? On several systems, the smi_cmd is set
 > >  > > wrongly by default.
 > >  > >
 > >  > Aha, with the right combination of BIOS settings and the smi_cmd=0x82 setting 
 > >  > the smi driver works on the Vaio Z600.
 > > 
 > > hmm, I wonder if its worth adding DMI matches for certain laptops
 > > that need different arguments.
 > 
 > I think the DMI table would get big over time... and considering Linus'
 > disliking of the ~10 entries in asus_hides_smbus PCI quirk

I'd like to live in a utopia where broken hardware doesn't exist too, but
last time I checked, neither I, nor Linus does 8-)
I've not had any problems merging such entries with him in the past that
I can recall.

 > I don't know what the general consensus on a big (~50? 100?) table is.

I'll bet you can get the more common models in much less entries than that.
Given its now an end of life'd chipset, its not like we'll ever see
new entries once we have the more common ones too.  Plus we'd only
need entries from models that deviate from the defaults, and finally
we'd need input from users, which at times, can be hard to gather anyway.
So I'm sceptical that we'll see 50-100 entries.

		Dave