Re: [PATCH] radeonfb: Let hwmon driver probe the "monid" I2C bus

[Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 09:56:57 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:50:10 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 14:44 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > > The radeon BIOS actually contains a table to tell us what chip is on
> > > the bus,
> > > in the KMS driver we read this table and load the appropriate hwmon
> > > device,
> > > 
> > > There could possibly be other things on this bus than hw monitor
> > > devices.
> > > 
> > > Though radeonfb should be considered mostly dead. 
> > 
> > I want to test that on a few powermacs first. "probing" i2c can be
> > destructive and f* knows what Apple put on those busses on some
> > machines.
> 
> If this is a concern to you, I'd be fine excluding CONFIG_PPC from the
> change. Or are you worried about Intel Mac machines too? If there's an
> easy way to spot all powermac machines, we can use that too, just let
> me know how.
> 
> > Haven't had a chance to look much yet.

Ben, any progress on this?

-- 
Jean Delvare