Re: i8k: fails to detect Dell XPS M1530, fails to get SMM BIOS

[Nick Warne <nick@ukfsn.org>]

> > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Andrew Paprocki <andrew@ishiboo.com> wrote:
> > > I see two problems with the i8k module and the Dell XPS M1530. First,
> > > the laptop is not detected. Second, even if it is detected, the module
> > > prints that it is unable to get the SMM BIOS version even though the
> > > module appears to be working:
> > 
> > It appears that the Dell Vostro & Precision series have the same issue
> > and the driver was never updated for those as well. Patches were
> > submitted back in 2007-11 and 2008-04 respectively:
> > 
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119401935026583&w=2
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120822526223412&w=2
> 
> Thanks, I picked up all three (much to various people's surprise, I expect).
> 
> > The same message prints for (at least one of) those as well:
> > 
> > i8k: unable to get SMM BIOS version
> 
> hm.  But the driver works OK anyway?

I put in a patch once for the Dell MM061 (UK Inspiron model) with
similar issues:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/7/121

If the module doesn't recognise the version model, you have to use
'force=1'... and if that works, you still get the 'unable to detect SMM
BIOS version' message.

But all appears to function fine with the patches to include version
models.

Nick
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