cvs commit: src/sys/dev/pci pci.c

[Robert Watson]

On 1 Sep 2003, Doug Rabson wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 16:16, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 04:09:06PM +0100, Doug Rabson wrote:
> > > This gets the thing detected at least for my Tyan Tiger MP motherboard.
> > > Still can't make any sense of the SMBus sensors with e.g. lmmon or
> > > healthd. Does anyone else have temperature, voltage sensors working for
> > > this motherboard?
> > 
> > Have you tried sysutils/xmbmon; it seems to use various ways of getting
> > that type of information (including, but not limited to, SMBus).
> 
> I've tried healthd's ISA method as well as SMB. I know that the board
> uses a Winbond W83782D chip which healthd supports but the ISA ports all
> read 0xff and the SMB ports seem to read 0x00. I have my doubts as to
> whether the kernel SMBus driver works at all though. 

I was perusing i2c and smb web pages this weekend, and noticed that there
are a number of comments on Linux-related i2c web pages about some Winbond
motherboard chipsets not supporting all registers (or standard access
mechanisms not working), and getting back invalid values as a result.  It
could be this applies to your motherboard and/or also to our driver.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert at fledge.watson.org      Network Associates Laboratories