Jean,
Was support for the Iwill MPX2's particular method of switching
LM90s ever incorporated into lm_sensors? I could not find any indication
that it had been. If not, I am interested in helping implement that feature.
Lamar
>the LM90 only allows 1 smbus adress and thus there can not be 2
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>Iwill switches the input from the 2 cpu's, put a certain pin high and you
>get cpu0, put it low and you get cpu1 on the SAME LM90
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>Jean has the code and it is based on info gotten from IWill
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>Regards, Alex
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jean Delvare [mailto:khali at linux-fr.org]
>Sent: dinsdag 7 oktober 2003 17:20
>To: lamar at synque.com
>Cc: sensors at stimpy.netroedge.com; mbm at livewiredev.com
>Subject: Re: Iwill MPX2 - LM83/LM90 confusion
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>>One more item, I hope this isn't noise, but there may be two(!)
>>LM90s/LM83s on the MPX2.
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>Maybe, maybe not. Running 2.8.1's sensors-detect will tell you that (and
>possibly more).
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>>At any rate, I had seen the 2.8.1 but was loathe to install it
>>because:
>>1) I'd just installed 2.8.0
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>This means you'd have installed 2.8.1 easily, since the procedure hasn't
>changed ;)
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>>2) 2.8.1 was beta
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>In now way it is. What made you think it could be?
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>>But if you invested the time to write it the least I can do is
>>install and test it.
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>If you wan't LM90 support, you want 2.8.1. It's that simple ;)
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>>Question: why does the i2c version always have to increase
>>to support lm_sensors?
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>Because most sensor chips are located on the I2C bus (aka SMBus).
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>>Are you upgrading i2c to handle devices that lm_sensors will use?
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>Yes, sort of. We add utility functions, remove unused ones, adapt
>internal structures to reflect kernel policy changes, and so on. You do
>not always need the exact same version of i2c and lm_sensors, but since
>we also fix bugs it i2c, you always want to update i2c to match the
>version of lm_sensors you plan to install.
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>Let us know how 2.8.1 does work for you :)
>Thanks.
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