thanks. together with the xbox team we have confirmed this and checked the changes into CVS. We now have SMBus/sensors running on the xbox! thanks again. mds "Yoshifumi R. Shimizu" wrote: > > Dear Developers of the lm_sensor project: > > My name is Yoshifumi Shimizu. I'm writing this mail because, > first, I want to express sincere thanks for lm_sensor project, and > second, I would like to provide a bit of information concerning > the nForce chipset. > > I am developing a motherboard monitor program for FreeBSD (it > also runs on Linux box, though), named "xmbmon/mbmon", which is > a userland program and not of device driver type. In the very > initial version I did not know about the lm_sensor project, > but after certain version up, I am using the information abount > the SMBus and the sensor chips directly from the code of your > project. In this sense I am very much indebted to you (Of course, > I am make acknowledgements to your project in my program). I > apprecitate your activity very much. > > Next, I looked into the newest verion lm_sensor-2.6.4, and > found that the nForce chipset is supported in the amd756 code. > But, I noticed that the SMBus base address is fixed as 0x5500. > I have been working on the SMBus issue of the nForce chipset in > the newest verion of my "xmbmon/mbmon", and I got information > on how to get the SMBus base address from my collegue (FreeBSD > freaks). The nForce SMBus base address is obtained through > the offset 0x14 in the PCI configuration registor, just as > the offset 0x58 for the AMD756/766/768 chipset. This friend > of mine has Asus A7N266 motherboard, and in this way the > SMBus base address can be obtained with the result being > correctly 0x5500. I'm not sure that this base address is > always fixed as 0x5500, but if not, this offset 0x14 in the > PCI configuration may be an useful information. > > If you want to check in the code, please try to see > the code of my programs, xmbmon version 2.00, which is now > downloadable from my web page: > > http://www.nt.phys.kyushu-u.ac.jp/shimizu/download/download.html > > With best regards, Yoshifumi R. Shimizu
