Hi, you are giving a much better "support" than any company ever gave me! Thank you for detailed answer, now I know what I am going to do; I will call a Maxim Hotline on Monday, and ask how I can get such a chip. If they do not want to give me a chip, I will try to get a ADM1032. Today I have soldered some wires to the back of my CPU socket, so I will surely finish my "project", because my mainboard is still functional ;) You will hear from me again when I have bought a chip, so you will know if adding support for this chip is really neccessary. Thank you again, Peter "shutdown" Ganzhorn Jean Delvare wrote: >>At the moment I am not owning a mainboard with this chip on it (and >>do not even know about one using it by "default"), but because I am >>an overclocker I am doing a little modification on my Abit NF7-S >>which allows me to read the data of the AMD Athlon XP internal >>thermal diode. I am going to solder a self-made circuit using the >>MAX6657 to the back of my CPU socket on the mainboard, but before I >>am going to do this I wanted to know if it is possible to read the >>data of it with linux, which will be the only OS used on my computer. >>(So this is why I want to see this chip supported) >> >> > >OK. So I confirm that the chip isn't supported at the moment but could >be very easily. > > > >>It would be great if you would agree to add support for the MAX6657. >>Because I still have my Winbond W83627HF in an full operational state >>and I am not finished with my work yet, there is no need to have this >>feature imediately availiable. So take your time to do a good job ;) >> >> > >OK. > > > >>I do not know any system or motherboard using the MAX6658, so support >>for this chip is not necessary I think. And I do not know any >>overclocker using this chip for such work - but I know at least >>around 10 people using the MAX6657. Most of them are not using Linux >>or only use it as a secondary OS...expecting me :) >> >> > >I just checked and there is no way to differenciate between a MAX6657 >and a MAX6658 anyway (nor a MAX6659, BTW), at least not according to the >datasheet. So if we support one we have the others for free. > > > >>If you do NOT want to include support for this chip (maybe because it >>may cause misdetection problems or something like that) just tell me - >> >> > >No, there's no problem adding support. The "misdetection problems" are >inherent to I2C and if it justifies (IMHO) that we don't support chips >that are not used, it is definitely not a reason for not supporting a >chip once someone requests such support. > > > >>I did not buy the chip until now. But if you are going to support it, >>I will buy it, because it is said to be very precise. >> >> > >FWIW, Analog Devices ADM1032 is as precise as the MAX6657, at least from >comparing the datasheets. The National Semiconductor LM90 has a lower >accuracy. So if you can get you hands on an ADM1032, you could go with >that as well. But if you end up with a Maxim chip, I promise I'll add >support for it. > > > >>I wanted to buy the chip yesterday somewhere on the internet, but I >>did not find any site where it is sold...do you know a store on the >>internet where I may buy it? (I just thought so because you are "in >>touch with this scene" ;) ) >> >> > >Usually, either we have the chip in a piece of hardware we happen to >own, or the manufacturers send evaluation boards for free. We do not buy >anything. > >If you just need one chip, you can take you chance on the manufacturer's >site itself. They usually send free samples for people to experiment on >(or so I heard). They are used to sell them by 1000 to manufacturers, so >I guess they don't really care about one or two samples. > > > >>Thanks again for your efforts! >> >> > >You're welcome :) > > >
