Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:44:43 -0400 | From | Kyle McMartin <> | Subject | Re: [i8k] GIT current's i8k module does not load on Inspiron 8200 laptops |
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On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 10:19:08AM +0200, Marc Koschewski wrote: > Hey folks, > > the i8k module does no longer load on my DELL Inspiron 8200 laptops. It says this on one machine: > > Oct 2 10:06:01 marc kernel: [ 16.239867] i8k: unable to get SMM Dell > signature > > Due to git log there's nothing changed for a while and I cannot figure out, what's the problem. Does anyone of you? >
Apparently this is a recent GCC issue caused by optimization of the inline asm. Making the asm volatile seems to work around the problem according to reporters.
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=647677 and https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=780692#p780692.
regards, Kyle
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