From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751984AbYLUUF5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Dec 2008 15:05:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751016AbYLUUFt (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Dec 2008 15:05:49 -0500 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:51959 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751005AbYLUUFs (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Dec 2008 15:05:48 -0500 Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:05:39 +0000 From: Matthew Garrett To: Andrew Paprocki Cc: Andrew Morton , LKML , dz@debian.org, Federico Heinz , Andy Spencer Subject: Re: i8k: fails to detect Dell XPS M1530, fails to get SMM BIOS version with force=1 Message-ID: <20081221200538.GA29772@srcf.ucam.org> References: <76366b180812171634k6c5a25d6uad0de0d6c514ebb5@mail.gmail.com> <76366b180812171707j7ad58957xf153d40efb7c7d59@mail.gmail.com> <20081217222221.ac2c6f3a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <76366b180812172353o4f4fce30taac753a52a2a6e3e@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <76366b180812172353o4f4fce30taac753a52a2a6e3e@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@codon.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on vavatch.codon.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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