http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9514
------- Comment #22 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-01-12 00:14 ------- In all BIOS affected, the I/O port range(s) declared for the IT87xxF device are plain wrong, and that's why the it87 driver fails loading. It doesn't have anything to do with the BIOS reserving the device for it's own use. It is very frequent that motherboard BIOS declare an I/O area for the hardware monitoring chip, and in my experience it doesn't correlate with the BIOS making use of the device in question. There are many boards out there (probably the majority) where the I/O area of the hardware monitoring chip is declared in the BIOS but the BIOS doesn't make any use of it (outside of the BIOS setup screen, that is.) I don't expect the problem at hand to be widespread. It only affects motherboards where the BIOS declares a wrong I/O area for the IT87xxF chip. As far as I know, only 3 models are affected, all by Gigabyte: K8N Ultra-9, 965G-DS3 and M56S-S3. I have one board using the it87 driver here, incidentally a Gigabyte one as well, and it works just fine. The IT87xxF chips are very popular and we would probably know by know if (many) additional models were affected. I fail to see how Windows monitoring applications would matter here. I have no idea how I/O resources are managed on Windows, if they are at all. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ acpi-bugzilla mailing list acpi-bugzilla@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/acpi-bugzilla
