Mr. Tseng, Thank you very much for the datasheets, and thank you for the offer of a motherboard. We will let you know the address soon. To answer your question, if the sensor chip is an I/O device (what we call an "ISA" device), then the i2c bus driver for the via does not need to be loaded. However a "dummy" i2c driver called i2c-isa must be loaded. mds JH Tseng wrote: > > Hi, > > Attached file is the 686B/8231/8233/8233A datasheet. Basically, it should be > the same as 686A. For i2c bus/SMBus, the register set for 8233(A) and 8231 > are the same except that the IO Base address location. I will prepare the > motherboards based on 8231 first for your need. Could you tell me about > your address ?? > Here is a question about your package. If the sensor chip is a I/O device, > then in order to get the hardware monitor component's infor, the i2c bus > driver need to be loaded ?? > If you need any support, please feel free to contact me! thanks! > > JH > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Studebaker [mailto:mds at paradyne.com] > Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 2:06 AM > To: JH Tseng > Cc: 'sensors at stimpy.netroedge.com' > Subject: Re: Supporting Hardware monitor for VIA chipsets > > Oops, I misspoke. > We do _not_ support the 8231 i2c bus. > We do support 8233 and 8233A i2c busses. > > Mark Studebaker wrote: > > > > Latest datasheets would be _greatly_ appreciated. > > As many chips are quite similar, there often is not much programming, > > we just need the datasheets. > > We also need a 686B datasheet. > > Of course if you are willing to donate motherboards please let us know, > > that will help us quite a bit. > > > > We do support the 8231, 8233, and 8233A i2c drivers, > > but not their integrated sensors (if any). > > The latest information on driver support is here > > > > http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/newdrivers.html > > > > thanks very much for your interest. > > mds > > > > phil at netroedge.com wrote: > > > > > > Hi, thanks for the email. Right now, I think we support the > > > VT8233(A), but not yet the VT8231 nor the VT8235. We could use your > > > help to get drivers written. If you can, we'd appreciate you > > > submitting bus drivers (see kernel/busses/i2c-* for examples) to > > > integrate into the project. We might also be able to find a developer > > > to help out, but we seem to be a bit thin with programmers right now. > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > Phil > > > > > > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 05:50:03PM +0800, JH Tseng wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi Sir, > > > > > > > > I am a software engineer in VIA Tech Inc. According to the status > report in > > > > your web site, we find that there are not the sensor chip drivers for > latest > > > > VIA south bridges such as the VT8231, VT8233(A) and VT8235. Therefore, > I > > > > need your help or I can provide some HWs and information to you to > > > > co-develope/co-test the hardware monitor based on the VIA platform. I > deeply > > > > appreciate you very much if you have any input. > > > > > > > > Best regards > > > > > > > > JH > > > > > > -- > > > Philip Edelbrock -- IS Manager -- Edge Design, Corvallis, OR > > > phil at netroedge.com -- http://www.netroedge.com/~phil > > > PGP F16: 01 D2 FD 01 B5 46 F4 F0 3A 8B 9D 7E 14 7F FB 7A > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Name: DS686B224.pdf > DS686B224.pdf Type: Portable Document Format (application/pdf) > Encoding: base64 > Download Status: Not downloaded with message > > Name: DS8231185.pdf > DS8231185.pdf Type: Portable Document Format (application/pdf) > Encoding: base64 > Download Status: Not downloaded with message > > Name: DS8233A121.pdf > DS8233A121.pdf Type: Portable Document Format (application/pdf) > Encoding: base64 > Download Status: Not downloaded with message > > Name: DS8233CE2711.pdf > DS8233CE2711.pdf Type: Portable Document Format (application/pdf) > Encoding: base64 > Download Status: Not downloaded with message
