Re: asus_atk0110 not working on Asus P7P55D PRO

[Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com> wrote:
> Il Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 04:51:10PM -0600, Robert Hancock ha scritto:
>> On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> >> I'm guessing this board uses a different format than what the driver
>> >> >> is expecting. I'm attaching the gzipped decompiled DSDT from the
>> >> >> board, hopefully it's useful to somebody..
>> >> >
>> >> > Please try the following patch, it should detect the proper buffer size.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Obviously something not quite right:
>> >
>> > Ah yes, the pointer for the output buffer was pointing to the wrong
>> > variable. Sorry for that ;)
>>
>> Cool, seems to be working.
>
> Excellent :)
>
>> Though the high and critical temperatures
>> seem a bit odd, but maybe that's what the BIOS actually reports:
> [...]
>> CPU Temperature:    +32.5°C  (high = +45.0°C, crit = +45.5°C)
>> MB Temperature:     +31.0°C  (high = +45.0°C, crit = +46.0°C)
>
> The limits are declared in the DSDT, the driver doesn't do any
> calculation.
> It's possible that Asus changed the encoding (again); so far I've been
> unable to locate a "version" field that would allow the driver to detect
> a change in the data structures.
>
> I've got a new patch for you: instead of probing and preallocating the
> buffer this version lets ACPI code do the allocation; the return value
> is cached anyway, so there won't be a big number of allocations.
> Can you please test and see if it works?

Yes, this version still works..