Thanks for the reply... Quoting Mark Studebaker <mds at paradyne.com>: > Right now we claim that the adm1021 driver works for the xeon, except > that it only has > one sensor instead of two, and requires a force_adm1021 parameter. > Not that we've tested it. Would you please? I guess I can try... I'll look at the source code as well. > If true, I don't know if it would be better to hack adm1021 to remove > the > second sensor for xeons, or to keep your separate driver. > As you have good detection (that I hope won't detect the adm1021 > series) > it's probably better to keep it separate. > > After you go through doc/developers/new_drivers you will probably have > an updated patch. A patch against CVS would be best. I guess I'll have to read new_drivers now... > chips.c is in lib/ I did the development against Red Hat's bundled lm_sensors in the 7.3 kernel (2.4.18-4) Don't know how out of date with respect to CVS that is... Guess I need to go setup CVS tree and do a merge... OK. > Philip Pokorny wrote: > > > > The thermal diode on the Pentium III processors has been replaced by > an > > SMBus device to monitor and convert the diode to degrees C in the > > Pentium 4 (Xeon) processors. > > > > This Thermal Sensors is documented in the processor datasheet and I > have > > written a driver to report the temperature, high and low limits, and > the > > conversion rate. > > > > I had to hack the i2c-i801 driver to recognize the intel 7500 > xx801CA > > chip. I think that fix might already be in the mainline sources. > > > > I have assigned myself a "production" ID in i2c-ids.h. If that ID > has > > already been assigned, please assign me a new one and I'll redo the > > patch. (Didn't read doc/writing-drivers until after I'd > finished...) > > > > I don't have the chips.c file that goes into 'sensors', so I haven't > > been able to add the 'temp', 'temp_over', and 'temp_hyst' parameters > to > > sensors and sensors.conf. > > > > Please let me know what I need to do to submit this patch to the > > main-line lm-sensors code. > > > > Thanks, > > :v) > > > > -- > > Philip Pokorny, Senior Engineer > > Tel: 415-358-2635 Fax: 415-358-2646 Toll Free: 888-PENGUIN > > PENGUIN COMPUTING - Simplifying the Solution Process [tm] > > www.penguincomputing.com > > > >
