Alex, catching up on email after vacation. Nice to hear from you. Mark Hoffman told us he was investigating the 8707, as we have posted on our new drivers page http://secure.netroedge.com/~lm78/newdrivers.html But haven't heard of any progress from him. mds Alexander van Kaam wrote: > > Mark > > since we are on about SiS chipsets and boards, you ever heard about the > ITE8707F ? I can't find any info on it although a user has send me a picture > of it in his pc. > > it's not on the normal ISA and am waiting results from going via $2E to see > if I can enabled it via that way. > > Regards, Alex > > - Please always attach all previous mails ! > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The Motherboard Monitor: > http://mbm.livewiredev.com/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To Subscribe to the MBM update list, go to > http://mbm.livewiredev.com/join.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For long you live and high you fly, > And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry, > And all you touch and all you see, > Is all your life will ever be. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark M. Hoffman [mailto:mhoffman at lightlink.com] > Sent: Saturday,28 September, 2002 23:14 > To: Alexander van Kaam > Cc: Mark D. Studebaker; Sensors > Subject: Re: SiS > > Hi Alex: > > (cc'ed to MDS because for some reason, I'm having trouble w/ the list) > > * Alexander van Kaam <a.vankaam at chello.nl> [2002-09-27 19:55:12 +0200]: > > > the 0008 can be set to appear as 0018, it's in the datasheets (search for > > 0018 and you will find "Note: Write a 1 to Reg40 bit 6 will change the > > Device ID to 0018h.") > > > > Now please don't ask my why SiS will allow you to rename the 0008 to 0018, > I > > dunno, maybe board makers whan it that way ? Asus A7S333 has the 0018 if > > case you need to find a board that has it. > > Ok thanks... I haven't found anyone with SiS745 chipset yet; it's on the > "looking for testers" list though. > > > the 0963 you can handle exactly as the 0961 smbus wise that is. I have > not > > had a 0962 tester as of yet, if I do will let you know the board and stuff > > Yes I suspect as much... but I won't add code until I find someone to step > up and test it. > > > for that mather I handle the 0008, 0018, 0961 and 0963 the same way right > > now, enable the 0016 via reg 77. To avoid giving the smbus the wrong name > > this way I just call it SiS0016 via 0961 or however I got it. > > Right now, our driver is called i2c-sis645... I would like to change the > name to i2c-sis0016 at some point. I need some guidance from the project > maintainers for how to do that without messing up all our users. > > > I would asume that the 0962 is identical in the above way but have not yet > > encountered it. > > > > I see how you determine the SiS smbus driver, as you said not a perfect > way > > and will to keep updated, shame SiS does not do a better job of Device > ID's > > or at least Revisions. > > > > a final question, on the intel,via,adm, after setting the start bit I > always > > check to see if the smbus starts/is working, on intel for example if bit 0 > > of INTEL_SMBHSTSTS is high, however I have not find such a way on the SiS > so > > for now I just do a simple 1ms wait and then go into the check if ready > > loop..... have you found such a bit or are you also just putting a little > > rest and then go on ? > > Can you not use SMB_CNT[HOST_BUSY] for this purpose? In our case we just > sleep and then test SMB_STS against 0x0e in a loop. > > > Thanks for the complimetens on MBM, sadly I never tried lm_sensors as I > > don't have linux, sorry :) > > Yes, I do feel sad for you in that regard. ;) > > Regards, > > Mark > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mark M. Hoffman [mailto:mhoffman at lightlink.com] > > Sent: Friday,27 September, 2002 18:27 > > To: Alexander van Kaam > > Cc: sensors at stimpy.netroedge.com > > Subject: Re: SiS > > > > > > Hi Alex: > > > > * Alexander van Kaam <a.vankaam at chello.nl> [2002-09-27 10:32:36 +0200]: > > > > > I was wondering, I just started support for the SiS Smbus -yes yes way > to > > > late- and for now got a running smbus driver for Device 0016 > > > detected/enabled via either the 0008, 0018, 0961 or 0963. > > > > What chipset claims 0018? I haven't seen that before. Right now we're > > working with 0008 and 0961. We're looking for testers for 0962 and 0963. > > > > > how I was wondering, the 0008 has been around a long time and I am > pretty > > > sure the older versions do not support the same smbus. Have you found a > > way > > > to determin if the 0008 is a new or old one ? So far I have not, I have > > > seen revision ID's of 00, 10 and 0F that all appear to be new. > > > > Agreed; their PCI IDs are nearly random. We've been using a list of north > > bridge IDs to determine whether to proceed when loading a driver. It's > > far from ideal. The driver I wrote (for newer dev 0016) does this: > > > > if (0961) > > continue... > > > > else if (0008) > > if ((0645) || (0646) || (0650) || (etc...)) > > continue... > > > > else > > give up... > > > > I haven't added any device ID to that list without at least one person > > testing it. Benefit of open source: people sometimes add their own IDs > > to the list and send me a patch. ;) > > > > > any insight would be appreciated, btw if you don't yet have support for > > any > > > of the above mentioned for let me know. > > > > As I said, we haven't seen 0018 before and we're looking for testers for > > the rest. > > > > Also coincidence: I fired up MBM 5.2 just last night on my P4S333 - it > > looks great Alex. > > > > Regards, > > > > -- > > Mark M. Hoffman > > mhoffman at lightlink.com > > > > > > -- > Mark M. Hoffman > mhoffman at lightlink.com
