From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: "Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>, "Jean Delvare" <jdelvare@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Dell Latitude E6440 & i8k
Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 08:34:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5377818A.3020104@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201405162123.02112@pali>
On 05/16/2014 12:23 PM, Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Friday 16 May 2014 21:11:17 Jean Delvare wrote:
>> Hi Pali,
>>
>> On Fri, 16 May 2014 20:37:41 +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> on Dell Latitude E6440 driver i8k reporting total nonsense
>>> values
>>
>> That's kind of excessive wording, the output isn't that bad.
>>
>
> I mean fan RPM & temp4. Those are for sure incorrect.
>
>>> $ sensors
>>> i8k-virtual-0
>>> Adapter: Virtual device
>>> Right Fan: 93450 RPM
>>> CPU: +57.0°C
>>> temp2: +57.0°C
>>> temp3: +40.0°C
>>> temp4: +127.0°C
>>>
>>> Right Fan and temp4 are for sure incorrect.
>>
>> Driver is reverse-engineered so this is best effort and some
>> tweaking may be needed.
>>
>
> Ok, if driver is developed without any documentation, then it
> make sense that not working correctly on new machines...
>
> So is not there any documentation? I think that Dell released
> some SMM/BIOS code... But I'm not sure about it.
>
If you find it, please let us know.
Guenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-17 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-16 18:37 Dell Latitude E6440 & i8k Pali Rohár
2014-05-16 19:11 ` Jean Delvare
2014-05-16 19:23 ` Pali Rohár
2014-05-17 9:44 ` Jean Delvare
2014-05-17 15:34 ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
2014-05-17 23:01 ` Pali Rohár
2014-05-18 8:23 ` Jean Delvare
2014-05-17 15:25 ` Guenter Roeck
2014-05-17 21:09 ` Jean Delvare
2014-05-17 22:18 ` Guenter Roeck
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2014-05-17 22:54 Pali Rohár
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