Re: it87 causes VIA hardware to lockup

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 02:08:12PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 06:44:30AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 07:26:34AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 02:15:22PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 06:25:44AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > > > I found some reference suggesting that The IT8705F may respond on
> > > > > both SIO addresses. Can you try the following patch ?
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks for the patch - it'll take about a week or so for me to test,
> > > > as I can only risk testing it when I'm physically at the machine.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > My pleasure. Sorry for the trouble. I attached a more comprehensive version
> > > of the patch.
> > > 
> > Hi Russell,
> > 
> > did you by any chance have time to test the patch ? I would like to send
> > the fix upstream, but I held it back in the hope to get feedback if it
> > actually solves the problem.
> 
> Sorry, I haven't, and given my current situation, I'm unlikely to be
> able to for quite some time (medical issues).
> 
Sorry to hear that. Hope you'll get better soon.

I'll submit the patch as-is upstream; at least it doesn't break anything.
If it doesn't fix your problem, we'll have to look at it again at a later
point.

Thanks,
Guenter