Theo de Raadt wrote: > >On 2010/09/23 15:13, Marco Pfatschbacher wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 06:11:58PM +0200, Mike Belopuhov wrote: > >> > there's nothing special about this driver. as it does usual iic_exec's, > >> > i'm not sure what can be actually fixed there. so if nobody has any > >> > idea what could be done about it, you have my okay to disable it > >> > completely. > >> > >> It's not the drivers fault, it seems that polling on piixpm(4) > >> causes hangs on ServerWorks HT-1000 chips. > > I don't believe it. If you searched around, I think you would find > HT-1000 machines where it does work. > > The iic bus drivers are full of bugs. They need maintainers. There > are some nasty SMI-related issues, but in general what they are doing > is pretty simple. They are such simple drivers and nearly anyone > could jump in and help.
That's correct. I have to disable wbsio(4) on X8SIL-based Supermicro box since leaving it enabled leads to weird things: sudden overheating alarms while no overheating, front panel "fault" led blinking while no errors recorded in BIOS log, etc. Alexey
