Changeset 2733 for lm-sensors/trunk/README.thinkpad

Timestamp:

10/14/04 22:56:47 (9 years ago)

Author:

khali

Message:

Update anti-thinkpad measures list.

Files:

• lm-sensors/trunk/README.thinkpad (modified) (2 diffs)

lm-sensors/trunk/README.thinkpad

@@ -24 +24 @@
 Later evolutions were made and the current state is:
 
-1) Sensors-detect accesses VPD information in the BIOS to identify IBM
-   systems. If it finds the VPD structure (which is IBM-proprietary),
-   sensors-detect will print a message and exit. This is a temporary
-   additional measure, which will be removed as soon as the other
-   measures have proven to be efficient.
-
-2) The probing command (quick write 0) has been replaced by a different
+1) The probing command (quick write 0) has been replaced by a different
    command (read byte) for addresses where eeproms are known to live.
    This should prevent corruption of 24RF08 eeproms in any system,
@@ -36 +30 @@
    no corruption was ever reported using this tool.
 
-3) The i2c-piix4 module (the bus driver that is used for Intel PIIX4-based
+2) The i2c-piix4 module (the bus driver that is used for Intel PIIX4-based
    systems, including IBM Thinkpads) now accesses DMI information
    in the BIOS to identify the system manufacturer. If the system
    manufacturer is IBM, i2c-piix4 will print a message and exit.
    As the 24RF08 is on the PIIX4 SMBus, this prevents access to
-   the 24RF08, even if sensors-detect was not used.
+   the 24RF08.
 
-4) The sequence of probes in the eeprom module (when loaded with
+3) The sequence of probes in the eeprom module (when loaded with
    checksum=1) has been changed so that 24RF08 eeproms will
    not be corrupted. This *should* prevent corruption of 24RF08