From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Andrew Paprocki" <andrew@ishiboo.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
dz@debian.org, "Federico Heinz" <fheinz@vialibre.org.ar>,
"Andy Spencer" <spenceal@rose-hulman.edu>
Subject: Re: i8k: fails to detect Dell XPS M1530, fails to get SMM BIOS version with force=1
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:22:21 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081217222221.ac2c6f3a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <76366b180812171707j7ad58957xf153d40efb7c7d59@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:07:02 -0500 "Andrew Paprocki" <andrew@ishiboo.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Andrew Paprocki <andrew@ishiboo.com> wrote:
> > I see two problems with the i8k module and the Dell XPS M1530. First,
> > the laptop is not detected. Second, even if it is detected, the module
> > prints that it is unable to get the SMM BIOS version even though the
> > module appears to be working:
>
> It appears that the Dell Vostro & Precision series have the same issue
> and the driver was never updated for those as well. Patches were
> submitted back in 2007-11 and 2008-04 respectively:
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119401935026583&w=2
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120822526223412&w=2
Thanks, I picked up all three (much to various people's surprise, I expect).
> The same message prints for (at least one of) those as well:
>
> i8k: unable to get SMM BIOS version
hm. But the driver works OK anyway?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-18 6:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-18 0:34 i8k: fails to detect Dell XPS M1530, fails to get SMM BIOS version with force=1 Andrew Paprocki
2008-12-18 1:07 ` Andrew Paprocki
2008-12-18 6:22 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-12-18 7:53 ` Andrew Paprocki
2008-12-21 20:05 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-12-21 14:41 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-21 23:25 ` Federico Heinz
2008-12-22 0:09 ` Andy Spencer
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