Fan control for new PowerMac G5 2.7GHz machines?
Geoff Levand
geoffrey.levand at am.sony.com
Wed Aug 10 09:21:51 EST 2005
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>>i2c /dev entries driver
>>/u3 at 0,f8000000/i2c at f8001000: Missing interrupt or address !
>>
>>In therm_pm72_attach() it hits 'Found K2', but u3_0 and u3_1
>>are never set, so start_control_loops() is never called.
>>
>>I'll look at it more when I have some time.
>
>
> Ah yes, this is indeed the problem ! There is a bug in Apple device tree
> on these machines that is breaking Linux. I should have a workaround
> upstream, but for some reason, it seems it's not working for you.
>
> Can you look at arch/ppc64/kernel/prom_init.c, more specifically, the
> function
>
> static void __init fixup_device_tree(void)
>
> And see if it's going all the way to the fixup code at the end or not ?
> If not, then one of the tests isn't triggering the right way on your
> machine, possibly the U3 revision.
>
Seems like this makes it work, at least I get '** CPU ...' like debug
messages coming out.
-Geoff
--- a/arch/ppc64/kernel/prom_init.c 2005-07-27 18:34:40.000000000 -0700
+++ b/arch/ppc64/kernel/prom_init.c 2005-08-09 16:18:04.000000000 -0700
@@ -1803,7 +1803,7 @@
if (prom_getprop(u3, "device-rev", &u3_rev, sizeof(u3_rev))
== PROM_ERROR)
return;
- if (u3_rev != 0x35)
+ if (u3_rev != 0x35 && u3_rev != 0x37)
return;
/* does it need fixup ? */
if (prom_getproplen(i2c, "interrupts") > 0)
-EOF
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