[ltp] Installing linux, fear of lm_sensors

[Philip Edelbrock]

FYI- The chip used in the particular laptops had a faulty state machine 
for interpreting I2C bus commands.  Under certain circumstances, the 
chip would interpret commands meant for other chips as a command for 
it's self to write data to it's memory.  IBM doesn't use the chip any 
more (the AT24RF08, if I remember correctly), but it's still a problem 
with old hardware. :'(

Newer distros should begin to carry newer versions of lm-sensors which 
detects for potentially vulnerable IBM hardware and disable it's self.


Phil


James Mckenzie wrote:

>Andrey:
>
>The problem with lm sensors is that it attempts to read the BIOS EPROM
>and messes it up.
>