On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, James Olin Oden wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a board with the Intel 6300ESB ICH which contains an integrated > smbus controller (is that the right terminology?). Sensors does not seem > to detect this smbus controller, but after some groking of code it seems > like it should. The reason I say this, is I downloaded some patches to > the i2c-i801.c bus driver from intel for this ICH and then looked in > the latest sources (v2.8.7 of lm_sensors) and found what looked to be > the equivelant stuff being done in that source as in the patch (I say > equivelant, because Intel had generated their patch against the lm_sensors > that came with the RH 8 distro, so for instance structure initilization > was not done according to C99 in the Intel patch). Basically, the patch > and the source both simply say that the device in question is known by > 0x25a4, and then the current source actually attempts to support some > of its more advanced features. > > Anyway, when I manually try to load the i2c-i801 driver it simply says the > i801 driver is not detected. What might be wrong or what can I do next? > > Many Thanks...james > It was my fault. The driver needed was indeed i2c-i801, but it only works if you compile against the kernel sources used to build the actual kernel running on the target. I knew this, but somehow I oopsed. So yes 2.8.7 does support the Intel 6300ESB ICH. ..james
