On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 09:34, Jean Delvare wrote: > > I just got an Opteron board (http://www.rioworks.com/HDAMB.htm) which > > uses the NS PC87366 for its sensors. > > > > Running sensors-detect finds it on the ISA bus, and told me to ask for > > the driver, so here I go ;-) > > > > I am running kernel 2.6.5 with Fedora Core 2 test 2 and lm_sensors > > 2.8.6 > > We have no driver for Linux 2.6 yet :( > > If you upgrade to CVS: > http://secure.netroedge.com/~lm78/download.html#cvs > sensor-detect should tell you which of the three logical devices (fans, > voltages and temperatures) are activated on your system. I guess this is what you meant Probing for `Nat. Semi. PC87366 Super IO Fan Sensors' Success... found at address 0x0600 Probing for `Nat. Semi. PC87366 Super IO Voltage Sensors' Success... found at address 0x0620 Probing for `Nat. Semi. PC87366 Super IO Thermal Sensors' Success... found at address 0x0610 > That's about it, for now. > > If sensors-detect confirms that one or more logical devices are used, > you have three options: > > 1* Try a 2.4 kernel + i2c patch + lm_sensors CVS. I do not really want to step back to a 2.4 kernel > 2* Try to port our preliminary driver by yourself. Instructions are > found in Documentation/i2c/porting-clients in the 2.6 kernel tree. That might be a bit beyond my skill, I will have a look though. > 3* Wait for us or someone else to port and/or extend the existing > driver. Nobody is working on it at the moment. > > Note that our preliminary driver only supports fans (monitoring and > control) at the moment, and has not been much tested. I do not plan to > extend the driver unless I have at least one motivated tester for > voltages and/or temperatures. And I do not plan to port the driver to > 2.6 before it is reasonably tested and extended. > > Good luck ;)
