From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Andrew Paprocki <andrew@ishiboo.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:05:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081221200538.GA29772@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <76366b180812172353o4f4fce30taac753a52a2a6e3e@mail.gmail.com>
My understanding is that the documented way of making SMM calls on any
Dell system is using the interface in the dcdbas driver. dell-laptop
uses this to export some of the information that i8k handles (and a
bunch of other stuff) but not all of it. Asking about fan information on
the libsmbios mailing list might get us the documented access method for
that, and then dell-laptop can be extended to export that ia the hwmon
interface.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-21 20:05 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
2008-12-18 7:53 ` Andrew Paprocki
2008-12-21 20:05 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
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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