On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 3:41 AM Rick Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I just loaded the latest Debian-ports powerpc64 installer on a PowerMac > dual-core G5 that I had lying around. > > It installed kernel 4.16.0-1-powerpc64 from the CD. After the install > finished, I did an update/upgrade and that installed kernel > 4.17.0-3-powerpc64. > > A few minutes after rebooting with the new kernel the “wind tunnel” fans > started up. I then rebooted with the old (4.16) kernel. The fans did not > start up. > > Back in the old days of Linux kernel 3.x, the fix for wind tunnel fans was to > load the “i2c_powermac" kernel module. Nowadays, that module is built-in so > it isn’t necessary (or even possible) to manually load it. I checked the > config files, and it is still built-in on both the 4.16 and the 4.17 kernels. > > Anybody know what changed and what can be done about it?
Is this the same: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199471 [Credit: Wolfram] > Thanks! for any help you can give, > Rick
