[lm-sensors] BIOS Corruption (was : new abituguru driver in mm

[khali@linux-fr.org (Jean Delvare)]

Hi Hans,

> Jean Delvare wrote:
> > 
> > (As a side note, our sensors-detect script still doesn't know about the
> > uGuru. Don't you want to add support for it? Or is it just too
> > dangerous because of the non-standard I/O addresses?)
> 
> I don't know what else could be behind those addresses, so thats not the 
> reason I haven't worked on adding it to the script yets. The real 
> problem is that the current detection code in the driver could very well 
> miss-detect. The only good way of doing detection would be todo a proof 
> read. A better idea would be to use dmidecode and sue the info from 
> there, atleast for Abit motherboards this info seems sane. I could do 
> that if you want me to (as time permits).

I don't really care myself, but that would probably bring you some more
testers. Indeed checking that the board is an Abit board would make
some sense. Not only in sensors-detect, but also in the driver itself.

-- 
Jean Delvare