* [i8k] GIT current's i8k module does not load on Inspiron 8200 laptops @ 2010-10-02 8:19 Marc Koschewski 2010-10-31 23:44 ` Kyle McMartin 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: Marc Koschewski @ 2010-10-02 8:19 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Linux-LKLM Hey folks, the i8k module does no longer load on my DELL Inspiron 8200 laptops. It says this on one machine: Oct 2 10:06:01 marc kernel: [ 16.239867] i8k: unable to get SMM Dell signature Due to git log there's nothing changed for a while and I cannot figure out, what's the problem. Does anyone of you? Cheers, Marc -- Marc Koschewski ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: [i8k] GIT current's i8k module does not load on Inspiron 8200 laptops 2010-10-02 8:19 [i8k] GIT current's i8k module does not load on Inspiron 8200 laptops Marc Koschewski @ 2010-10-31 23:44 ` Kyle McMartin 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Kyle McMartin @ 2010-10-31 23:44 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Marc Koschewski; +Cc: Linux-LKLM, Massimo Dal Zotto On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 10:19:08AM +0200, Marc Koschewski wrote: > Hey folks, > > the i8k module does no longer load on my DELL Inspiron 8200 laptops. It says this on one machine: > > Oct 2 10:06:01 marc kernel: [ 16.239867] i8k: unable to get SMM Dell > signature > > Due to git log there's nothing changed for a while and I cannot figure out, what's the problem. Does anyone of you? > Apparently this is a recent GCC issue caused by optimization of the inline asm. Making the asm volatile seems to work around the problem according to reporters. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=647677 and https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=780692#p780692. regards, Kyle ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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