Re: Dell Inc. XPS 13 9343/0TM99H fails to boot v4.16-rc5

[Darren Hart]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 07:53:57PM +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> Mario,
> 
> unfortunately, my Dell Inc. XPS 13 9343/0TM99H, BIOS A11 12/08/2016 fails to
> boot v4.16-rc5. More exactly, I could bisect it down to commit 25d47027e10
> ("platform/x86: dell-smbios: Link all dell-smbios-* modules together").
> Usually, I have enabled
> 
> CONFIG_SENSORS_DELL_SMM=y
> CONFIG_DELL_SMBIOS=y
> CONFIG_DELL_SMBIOS_WMI=y
> CONFIG_DELL_SMBIOS_SMM=y
> CONFIG_DELL_LAPTOP=y
> CONFIG_DELL_WMI=y
> CONFIG_DELL_WMI_DESCRIPTOR=y
> # CONFIG_DELL_WMI_AIO is not set
> # CONFIG_DELL_WMI_LED is not set
> # CONFIG_DELL_SMO8800 is not set
> # CONFIG_DELL_RBTN is not set
> # CONFIG_DELL_RBU is not set
> 
> For v4.16-rc5 to work, I need to manually disable DELL_SMBIOS_WMI:
> 
> -CONFIG_DELL_SMBIOS_WMI=y
> +# CONFIG_DELL_SMBIOS_WMI is not set
> 
> Any ideas?

We're working on a dependency fix, but I think the problem you have here is
likely to be ACPI_WMI=m instead of =y while you have DELL_SMBIOS=y

The fix won't allow that configuration. I'll include you in Cc of v2 of that
fix which I'll send shortly.

-- 
Darren Hart
VMware Open Source Technology Center