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Message-ID: <5377818A.3020104@roeck-us.net>
Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 08:34:34 -0700
From: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>,
Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Dell Latitude E6440 & i8k
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
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