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From: Eric Valette <eric.valette@free.fr>
To: "Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Karol Kozimor <sziwan@hell.org.pl>,
	"Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>,
	"Wang, Zhenyu Z" <zhenyu.z.wang@intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	linux@brodo.de,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 and Asus L3C : problematic change found, can be reverted. Real fix still missing
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 10:05:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41245F59.4080608@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B44D37711ED29844BEA67908EAF36F039A1877@pdsmsx401.ccr.corp.intel.com>

Li, Shaohua wrote:
> Eric,
> The patch for bug 3049 has been in 2.6.8.1 and should fix the IO port
> problem. If the Asus quirk is just because of IO port problem, I'd like
> to remove it. Note PNP driver also reserves the IO port for the SMBus
> and lets SMBus driver to use it. ACPI motherboard driver behaves the
> same as PNP driver.

Unfortunately, as I understand it, the fix is done to "unhide" the SMBus 
that otherwyse is not seen but it has unexpected side effect of messing 
ioports allocation/reservation. I guess lspci with and without the fix 
could help to understand the problem. Here is the comment on top of the 
function :

/*
  * On ASUS P4B boards, the SMBus PCI Device within the ICH2/4 southbridge
  * is not activated. The myth is that Asus said that they do not want the
  * users to be irritated by just another PCI Device in the Win98 device
  * manager. (see the file prog/hotplug/README.p4b in the lm_sensors
  * package 2.7.0 for details)
  *
  * The SMBus PCI Device can be activated by setting a bit in the ICH LPC
  * bridge. Unfortunately, this device has no subvendor/subdevice ID. So it
  * becomes necessary to do this tweak in two steps -- I've chosen the Host
  * bridge as trigger.
  */

BTW, maybe we should change the comment because it is on many ASUS 
boards if not all ...

-- eric



  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-19  8:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-19  7:50 2.6.8.1-mm1 and Asus L3C : problematic change found, can be reverted. Real fix still missing Li, Shaohua
2004-08-19  8:05 ` Eric Valette [this message]
2004-08-19 11:09   ` Eric Valette
2004-08-29 13:04   ` Dominik Brodowski
2004-08-29 13:50     ` Eric Valette
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-10  9:08 2.6.8-rc4-mm1 : radeon_monitor.c broken vs CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS + Hard freeze Eric Valette
2004-08-10 10:35 ` 2.6.8-rc4-mm1 : Hard freeze due to ACPI Eric Valette
2004-08-10 16:07   ` Andrew Morton
     [not found]     ` <4123AC79.5000709@free.fr>
2004-08-19  0:00       ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 and Asus L3C : problematic change found, can be reverted. Real fix still missing Karol Kozimor
2004-08-19  7:16         ` Eric Valette

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