Messages in this thread | | | From | Pali Rohár <> | Subject | Re: Dell Latitude E6440 & i8k | Date | Sun, 18 May 2014 01:01:09 +0200 |
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On Saturday 17 May 2014 17:34:34 Guenter Roeck wrote: > 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
Now I remembered... Dell has released info about their smbios extensions with example programs at:
https://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main/ https://linux.dell.com/cgi-bin/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=libsmbios.git;a=summary
But there is nothing about fan control or temperature.
Also I found smbios specification:
http://www.dmtf.org/standards/smbios
There is something written about fan and temp, but no idea if it is usefull for something...
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